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.     THE  MOTHER  CHURCH, 
The  First  Church  of  Christ  Scientist,  Boston. 

Deo  juvante. 


PULPIT   AND   PRESS 


BY 


MARY    BAKER  EDDY 
\\ 

DISCOVERER    AND    FOUNDER    OF    CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE 

AND  AUTHOR  OF  SCIENCE  AND  HEALTH  WITH 

KEY    TO    THE    SCRIPTURES 


Nineteenth  Edition 


BOSTON,  U.S.A. 

Published  by  Allison  V.  Stewart 

FALMOUTH  AND  ST.  PAUL  STREETS 

1909 


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Copyright,  1898 
BY  MARY  BAKER  G.  EDDY 

All  rights  reserved 


THE   UNIVERSITY  PRESS,   CAMBRIDGE,   U.S.A. 


To 

THE  DEAR  TWO  THOUSAND  AND  SIX  HUNDRED 
CHILDREN 

WHOSE    CONTRIBUTIONS  OF   $4,460   WERE    DEVOTED 

TO    THE    MOTHER'S  ROOM  IN  THE  FIRST  CHURCH 

OF   CHRIST,  SCIENTIST,   BOSTON,  THIS   UNIQUE 

BOOK    IS    TENDERLY    DEDICATED    BY 

MARY   BAKER  EDDY 


PREFACE 

volume  contains  scintillations  from  press  and 
-L  pulpit — utterances  which  epitomize  the  story  of  the 
birth  of  Christian  Science,  in  1866,  and  its  progress 
during  the  ensuing  thirty  years.  Three  quarters  of  a 
century  hence,  when  the  children  of  to-day  are  the  elders 
of  the  twentieth  century,  it  will  be  interesting  to  have 
not  only  a  record  of  the  inclination  given  their  own 
thoughts  in  the  latter  half  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
but  also  a  registry  of  the  rise  of  the  mercury  in  the  glass 
of  the  world's  opinion. 

It  will  then  be  instructive  to  turn  backward  the  tele- 
scope of  that  advanced  age,  with  its  lenses  of  more 
spiritual  mentality,  indicating  the  gain  of  intellectual 
momentum,  on  the  early  footsteps  of  Christian  Science 
as  planted  in  the  pathway  of  this  generation ;  to  note 
the  impetus  thereby  given  to  Christianity;  to  con  the 
facts  surrounding  the  cradle  of  this  grand  verity  —  that 
the  sick  are  healed  and  sinners  saved,  not  by  matter,  but 
by  Mind;  and  to  scan  further  the  features  of  the  vast 
problem  of  eternal  life,  as  expressed  in  the  absolute 
power  of  Truth  and  the  actual  bliss  of  man's  existence 
in  Science. 

MARY  BAKER   EDDY 
February,  1895 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

DEDICATORY  SERMON i 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  TEXTBOOK   . 12 

HYMNS 

Laying  the  Corner-stone 1 6 

"Feed  My  Sheep" 17 

Christ  My  Refuge 18 

NOTE 20 

CLIPPINGS   FROM   NEWSPAPERS 

CHICAGO  INTER-OCEAN 23 

BOSTON  HERALD 40 

BOSTON  SUNDAY  GLOBE 44 

BOSTON  TRANSCRIPT 50 

JACKSON  PATRIOT 52 

OUTLOOK 56 

AMERICAN  ART  JOURNAL 57 

BOSTON  JOURNAL 61 

REPUBLIC  (WASHINGTON,  D.  C.) 63 

NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE 64 


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I  should  be  much  like  the  Queen  of  Sheba,  when  she  saw 
the  house  Solomon  had  erected.  In  the  expressive  language 
of  Holy  Writ,  "There  was  no  more  spirit  in  her;"  and 
she  said,  "  Behold,  the  half  was  not  told  me :  thy  wisdom 
and  prosperity  exceedeth  the  fame  which  I  heard."  Both 
without  and  within,  the  spirit  of  beauty  dominates  The 
Mother  Church,  from  its  mosaic  flooring  to  the  soft  shim- 
mer of  its  starlit  dome. 

Nevertheless,  there  is  a  thought  higher  and  deeper  than 
the  edifice.  Material  light  and  shade  are  temporal,  not 
eternal.  Turning  the  attention  from  sublunary  views, 
however  enchanting,  think  for  a  moment  with  me  of  the 
house  wherewith  "  they  shall  be  abundantly  satisfied,"  — 
even  the  "house  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the 
heavens."  With  the  mind's  eye  glance  at  the  direful 
scenes  of  the  war  between  China  and  Japan.  Imagine 
yourselves  in  a  poorly  barricaded  fort,  fiercely  besieged 
by  the  enemy.  Would  you  rush  forth  single-handed  to 
combat  the  foe?  Nay,  would  you  not  rather  strengthen 
your  citadel  by  every  means  in  your  power,  and  remain 
within  the  walls  for  its  defense  ?  Likewise  should  we  do 
as  metaphysicians  and  Christian  Scientists.  The  real 
house  in  which  "we  live,  and  move,  and  have  our  being" 
is  Spirit,  God,  the  eternal  harmony  of  infinite  Soul.  The 
enemy  we  confront  would  overthrow  this  sublime  fortress, 
and  it  behooves  us  to  defend  our  heritage. 

How  can  we  do  this  Christianly  scientific  work?  By 
intrenching  ourselves  in  the  knowledge  that  our  true 
temple  is  no  human  fabrication,  but  the  superstructure 
of  Truth,  reared  on  the  foundation  of  Love,  and  pinnacled 


DEDICATORY  SERMON  3 

in  Life.  Such  being  its  nature,  how  can  our  godly  temple 
possibly  be  demolished,  or  even  disturbed  ?  Can  eternity 
end?  Can  Life  die?  Can  Truth  be  uncertain?  Can 
Love  be  less  than  boundless?  Referring  to  this  temple, 
our  Master  said :  "  Destroy  this  temple,  and  in  three  days 
I  will  raise  it  up."  He  also  said :  "The  kingdom  of  God 
is  within  you."  Know,  then,  that  you  possess  sovereign 
power  to  think  and  act  rightly,  and  that  nothing  can  dis- 
possess you  of  this  heritage  and  trespass  on  Love.  If  you 
maintain  this  position,  who  or  what  can  cause  you  to  sin 
or  suffer?  Our  surety  is  in  our  confidence  that  we  are 
indeed  dwellers  in  Truth  and  Love,  man's  eternal  mansion, 
Such  a  heavenly  assurance  ends  all  warfare,  and  bids  tu- 
mult cease,  for  the  good  fight  we  have  waged  is  over,  and 
divine  Love  gives  us  the  true  sense  of  victory.  "They 
shall  be  abundantly  satisfied  with  the  fatness  of  Thy  house ; 
and  Thou  shalt  make  them  drink  of  the  river  of  Thy 
pleasures."  No  longer  are  we  of  the  church  militant,  but 
of  the  church  triumphant;  and  with  Job  of  old  we  ex- 
claim, "Yet  in  my  flesh  shall  I  see  God."  The  river  of 
His  pleasures  is  a  tributary  of  divine  Love,  whose  living 
waters  have  their  source  in  God,  and  flow  into  everlasting 
Life.  We  drink  of  this  river  when  all  human  desires  are 
quenched,  satisfied  with  what  is  pleasing  to  the  divine 
Mind. 

Perchance  some  one  of  you  may  say,  "The  evidence  of 
spiritual  verity  in  me  is  so  small  that  I  am  afraid.  I  feel 
so  far  from  victory  over  the  flesh  that  to  reach  out  for  a 
present  realization  of  my  hope  savors  of  temerity.  Be- 
cause of  my  own  unfitness  for  such  a  spiritual  animus  my 


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strength  is  naught  and  my  faith  fails."      O  thou  "weak 
and  infirm  of  purpose."    Jesus  said,  "Be  not  afraid"  1 

i'What  if  the  little  rain  should  say, 

'So  small  a  drop  as  I 
Can  ne  'er  refresh  a  drooping  earth, 
I '11  tarry  in  the  sky/" 

Is  not  a  man  metaphysically  and  mathematically  num- 
ber one,  a  unit,  and  therefore  whole  number,  governed 
and  protected  by  his  divine  Principle,  God?  You  have 
simply  to  preserve  a  scientific,  positive  sense  of  unity  with 
your  divine  source,  and  daily  demonstrate  this.  Then  you 
will  find  that  one  is  as  important  a  factor  as  duodecillions 
in  being  and  doing  right,  and  thus  demonstrating  deific 
Principle.  A  dewdrop  reflects  the  sun.  Each  of  Christ's 
little  ones  reflects  the  infinite  One,  and  therefore  is  the 
seer's  declaration  true,  that  "one  on  God's  side  is  a 
majority." 

A  single  drop  of  water  may  help  to  hide  the  stars,  or 
crown  the  tree  with  blossoms. 

Who  lives  in  good,  lives  also  in  God,  —  lives  in  all  Life, 
through  all  space.  His  is  an  individual  kingdom,  his  dia- 
dem a  crown  of  crowns.  His  existence  is  deathless,  for- 
ever unfolding  its  eternal  Principle.  Wait  patiently  on 
illimitable  Love,  the  lord  and  giver  of  Life.  Reflect  this 
Life,  and  with  it  cometh  the  full  power  of  being.  "They 
shall  be  abundantly  satisfied  with  the  fatness  of  Thy 
house." 

In  1893  the  World's  Parliament  of  Religions,  held  in 
Chicago,  used,  in  all  its  public  sessions,  my  form  of  prayer 


DEDICATORY  SERMON  5 

since  1866 ;  and  one  of  the  very  clergymen  who  had  pub- 
licly proclaimed  me  "the  prayerless  Mrs.  Eddy,"  offered 
his  audible  adoration  in  the  words  I  use,  besides  listening 
to  an  address  on  Christian  Science  from  my  pen,  read  by 
Judge  S.  J.  Hanna,  in  that  unique  assembly. 

When  the  light  of  one  friendship  after  another  passes 
from  earth  to  heaven,  we  kindle  in  place  thereof  the  glow 
of  some  deathless  reality.  Memory,  faithful  to  goodness, 
holds  in  her  secret  chambers  those  characters  of  holiest 
sort,  bravest  to  endure,  firmest  to  suffer,  soonest  to  re- 
nounce. Such  was  the  founder  of  the  Concord  School  of 
Philosophy  —  the  late  A.  Bronson  Alcott. 

After  the  publication  of  "Science  and  Health  with  Key 
to  the  Scriptures,"  his  athletic  mind,  scholarly  and  serene, 
was  the  first  to  bedew  my  hope  with  a  drop  of  humanity. 
When  the  press  and  pulpit  cannonaded  this  book,  he 
introduced  himself  to  its  author  by  saying,  "I  have  come 
to  comfort  you."  Then  eloquently  paraphrasing  it,  and 
prophesying  its  prosperity,  his  conversation  with  a  beauty 
all  its  own  reassured  me.  That  prophecy  is  fulfilled. 

This  book,  in  1895,  is  in  its  ninety-first  edition  of  one 
thousand  copies.  It  is  in  the  public  libraries  of  the  prin- 
cipal cities,  colleges,  and  universities  of  America;  also 
the  same  in  Great  Britain,  France,  Germany,  Russia, 
Italy,  Greece,  Japan,  India,  and  China;  in  the  Oxford 
University  and  the  Victoria  Institute,  England;  in  the 
Academy  of  Greece,  and  the  Vatican  at  Rome. 

This  book  is  the  leaven  fermenting  religion;  it  is 
palpably  working  in  the  sermons,  Sunday  Schools,  and 
literature  of  our  and  other  lands.  This  spiritual  chemi- 


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calization  is  the  upheaval  produced  when  Truth  is  neutral- 
izing error  and  impurities  are  passing  off.  And  it  will 
continue  till  the  antithesis  of  Christianity,  engendering  the 
limited  forms  of  a  national  or  tyrannical  religion,  yields  to 
the  church  established  by  the  Nazarene  Prophet  and  main- 
tained on  the  spiritual  foundation  of  Christ's  healing. 

Good,  the  Anglo-Saxon  term  for  God,  unites  Science  to 
Christianity.  It  presents  to  the  understanding,  not  matter, 
but  Mind ;  not  the  deified  drug,  but  the  goodness  of  God  — 
healing  and  saving  mankind. 

The  author  of  "Marriage  of  the  Lamb,"  who  made  the 
mistake  of  thinking  she  caught  her  notions  from  my  book, 
wrote  to  me  in  1894,  "Six  months  ago  your  book,  Science 
and  Health,  was  put  into  my  hands.  I  had  not  read  three 
pages  before  I  realized  I  had  found  that  for  which  I  had 
hungered  since  girlhood,  and  was  healed  instantaneously 
of  an  ailment  of  seven  years'  standing.  I  cast  from  me  the 
false  remedy  I  had  vainly  used,  and  turned  to  the  '  great 
Physician.'  I  went  with  my  husband,  a  missionary  to 
China,  in  1884.  He  went  out  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  I  feel  the  truth  is  leading 
us  to  return  to  Japan." 

Another  brilliant  enunciator,  seeker,  and  servant  of 
Truth,  the  Rev.  William  R.  Alger  of  Boston,  signalled 
me  kindly  as  my  lone  bark  rose  and  fell  and  rode  the  rough 
sea.  At  a  conversazione  in  Boston,  he  said,  "You  may 
find  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  metaphysical  teachings  more  than  is 
dreamt  of  in  your  philosophy." 

Also  that  renowned  apostle  of  anti-slavery,  Wer  'ell 
Phillips,  the  native  course  of  whose  mind  never  swer  ed 


DEDICATORY  SERMON  7 

from  the  chariot-paths  of  justice,  speaking  of  my  work, 
said :  "  Had  I  young  blood  in  my  veins,  I  would  help  that 
woman." 

I  love  Boston,  and  especially  the  laws  of  the  State  where- 
of this  city  is  the  capital.  To-day,  as  of  yore,  her  laws 
have  befriended  progress. 

Yet  when  I  recall  the  past,  —  how  the  gospel  of  healing 
was  simultaneous!^  praised  and  persecuted  in  Boston,  — 
and  remember  also  that  God  is  just,  I  wonder  whether, 
were  our  dear  Master  in  our  New  England  metropolis  at 
this  hour,  he  would  not  weep  over  it,  as  he  wept  over 
Jerusalem !  O  ye  tears  I  Not  in  vain  did  ye  flow.  Those 
sacred  drops  were  but  enshrined  for  future  use,  and  God 
has  now  unsealed  their  receptacle  with  His  outstretched 
arm.  Those  crystal  globes  made  morals  for  mankind. 
They  will  rise  with  joy,  and  with  power  to  wash  away,  in 
floods  of  forgiveness,  every  crime,  even  when  mistakenly 
committed  in  the  name  of  religion. 

An  unjust,  unmerciful,  and  oppressive  priesthood  must 
perish,  for  false  prophets  in  the  present  as  in  the  past 
stumble  onward  to  their  doom;  while  their  tabernacles 
crumble  with  dry  rot.  "God  is  not  mocked,"  and  "the 
word  of  the  Lord  endureth  forever." 

I  have  ordained  the  Bible  and  the  Christian  Science 
textbook,  "Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures," 
as  pastor  of  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  in 
Boston,  —  so  long  as  this  church  is  satisfied  with  this 
pastor.  This  is  my  first  ordination.  "They  shall  be 
abundantly  satisfied  with  the  fatness  of  Thy  house;  and 
Thou  shalt  make  them  drink  of  the  river  of  Thy  pleasures." 


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All  praise  to  the  press  of  America's  Athens,  —  and 
throughout  our  land  the  press  has  spoken  out  historically, 
impartially.  Like  the  winds  telling  tales  through  the 
leaves  of  an  ancient  oak,  unfallen,  may  our  church  chimes 
repeat  my  thanks  to  the  press. 

Notwithstanding  the  perplexed  condition  of  our  na- 
tion's finances,  the  want  and  woe  with  millions  of  dollars 
unemployed  in  our  money  centres,  the  Christian  Scientists, 
within  fourteen  months,  responded  to  the  call  for  this 
church  with  $191,012.  Not  a  mortgage  was  given  nor  a 
loan  solicited,  and  the  donors  all  touchingly  told  their 
privileged  joy  at  helping  to  build  The  Mother  Church. 
There  was  no  urging,  begging,  or  borrowing;  only  the 
need  made  known,  and  forth  came  the  money,  or  dia- 
monds, which  served  to  erect  this  "miracle  in  stone." 

Even  the  children  vied  with  their  parents  to  meet  the 
demand.  Little  hands,  never  before  devoted  to  menial 
services,  shoveled  snow,  and  babes  gave  kisses  to  earn  a 
few  pence  toward  this  consummation.  Some  of  these 
lambs  my  prayers  had  christened,  but  Christ  will  rechristen 
them  with  his  own  new  name.  "Out  of  the  mouths  of 
babes  and  sucklings  Thou  hast  perfected  praise."  The 
resident  youthful  workers  were  called  "  Busy  Bees." 

Sweet  society,  precious  children,  your  loving  hearts  and 
deft  fingers  distilled  the  nectar  and  painted  the  finest 
flowers  in  the  fabric  of  this  history, —  even  its  centre-piece, 
—  Mother's  Room  in  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Sci- 
entist, in  Boston.  The  children  are  destined  to  witness 
results  which  will  eclipse  Oriental  dreams.  They  belong 
to  the  twentieth  century.  By  juvenile  aid,  into  the  build- 


DEDICATORY  SERMON  9 

ing  fund  have  come  $4,460.  Ah,  children,  you  are  the 
bulwarks  of  freedom,  the  cement  of  society,  the  hope  of 
our  race ! 

Brothers  of  the  Christian  Science  Board  of  Directors, 
when  your  tireless  tasks  are  done  —  well  done  —  no  Del- 
phian lyre  could  break  the  full  chords  of  such  a  rest.  May 
the  altar  you  have  built  never  be  shattered  in  our  hearts, 
but  justice,  mercy,  and  love  kindle  perpetually  its  fires. 

It  was  well  that  the  brother  whose  appliances  warm 
this  house,  warmed  also  our  perishless  hope,  and  nerved 
its  grand  fulfilment.  Woman,  true  to  her  instinct,  came 
to  the  rescue  as  sunshine  from  the  clouds;  so,  when  man 
quibbled  over  an  architectural  exigency,  a  woman  climbed 
with  feet  and  hands  to  the  top  of  the  tower,  and  helped 
settle  the  subject. 

After  the  loss  of  our  late  lamented  pastor,  Rev.  D.  A. 
Easton,  the  church  services  were  maintained  by  excellent 
sermons  from  the  editor  of  The  Christian  Science  Journal 
(who,  with  his  better  half,  is  a  very  whole  man),  together 
with  the  Sunday  School  giving  this  flock  "drink  from  the 
river  of  His  pleasures."  O  glorious  hope  and  blessed  as- 
surance, "it  is  your  Father's  good  pleasure  to  give  you  the 
kingdom."  Christians  rejoice  in  secret,  they  have  a  bounty 
hidden  from  the  world.  Self-forgetfulness,  purity,  and 
love  are  treasures  untold  —  constant  prayers,  prophecies, 
and  anointings.  Practice,  not  profession,  —  goodness,  not 
doctrines,  —  spiritual  understanding,  not  mere  belief, 
gain  the  ear  and  right  hand  of  omnipotence,  and  call  down 
blessings  infinite.  "Faith  without  works  is  dead."  The 
foundation  of  enlightened  faith  is  Christ's  teachings  and 


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practice.  It  was  our  Master's  self-immolation,  his  life- 
giving  love,  healing  both  mind  and  body,  that  raised  the 
deadened  conscience,  paralyzed  by  inactive  faith,  to  a 
quickened  sense  of  mortal's  necessities,  —  and  God's 
power  and  purpose  to  supply  them.  It  was,  in  the  words 
of  the  Psalmist,  He  "who  forgiveth  all  thine  iniquities; 
who  healeth  all  thy  diseases." 

Rome's  fallen  fanes  and  silent  Aventine  is  glory's  tomb ; 
her  pomp  and  power  lie  low  in  dust.  Our  land,  more 
favored,  had  its  Pilgrim  Fathers.  On  shores  of  solitude^ 
at  Plymouth  Rock,  they  planted  a  nation's  heart,  —  the 
rights  of  conscience,  imperishable  glory.  No  dream  of 
avarice  or  ambition  broke  their  exalted  purpose,  theirs 
was  the  wish  to  reign  in  hope's  reality  —  the  realm  of 
Love. 

Christian  Scientists,  you  have  planted  your  standard 
on  the  rock  of  Christ,  the  true,  the  spiritual  idea,  —  the 
chief  corner-stone  in  the  house  of  our  God.  And  our 
Master  said:  "The  stone  which  the  builders  rejected,  the 
same  is  become  the  head  of  the  corner."  If  you  are  less 
appreciated  to-day  than  your  forefathers,  wait  —  for  if 
you  are  as  devout  as  they,  and  more  scientific,  as  progress 
certainly  demands,  your  plant  is  immortal.  Let  us  rejoice 
that  chill  vicissitudes  have  not  withheld  the  timely  shelter 
of  this  house,  which  descended  like  day-spring  from  on 
high. 

Divine  presence,  breathe  Thou  Thy  blessing  on  every 
heart  in  this  house.  Speak  out,  O  soul !  This  is  the  new- 
born of  Spirit,  this  is  His  redeemed;  this,  His  beloved. 
May  the  kingdom  of  God  within  you,  —  with  you  alway,  — 


DEDICATORY  SERMON  11 

reascending,  bear  you  outward,  upward,  heavenward. 
May  the  sweet  song  of  silver-throated  singers,  making 
melody  more  real,  and  the  organ's  voice,  as  the  sound  of 
many  waters,  and  the  Word  spoken  in  this  sacred  temple 
dedicated  to  the  ever-present  God  —  mingle  with  the  joy 
of  angels  and  rehearse  your  hearts*  holy  intents.  May  all 
whose  means,  energies,  and  prayers  helped  erect  The 
Mother  Church,  find  within  it  home,  and  heaven. 


CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE   TEXTBOOK 

The  following  selections  from  "Science  and  Health 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  pages  568-571,  were  read 
from  the  platform.  The  impressive  stillness  of  the  audi- 
ence indicated  close  attention. 

Revelation  xii.  10-12.  And  I  heard  a  loud  voice  saying  in 
heaven,  Now  is  come  salvation,  and  strength,  and  the  king- 
dom of  our  God,  and  the  power  of  His  Christ :  for  the  accuser 
of  our  brethren  is  cast  down,  which  accused  them  before  our 
God  day  and  night.  And  they  overcame  him  by  the  blood 
of  the  Lamb,  and  by  the  word  of  their  testimony ;  and  they 
loved  not  their  lives  unto  the  death.  Therefore  rejoice,  ye 
heavens,  and  ye  that  dwell  in  them.  Woe  to  the  inhabiters 
of  the  earth  and  of  the  sea !  for  the  devil  is  come  down  unto 
you,  having  great  wrath,  because  he  knoweth  that  he  hath 
but  a  short  time. 

For  victory  over  a  single  sin,  we  give  thanks  and  mag- 
nify the  Lord  of  Hosts.  What  shall  we  say  of  the  mighty 
conquest  over  all  sin?  A  louder  song,  sweeter  than  has 
ever  before  reached  high  heaven,  now  rises  clearer  and 
nearer  to  the  great  heart  of  Christ;  for  the  accuser  is  not 
there,  and  Love  sends  forth  her  primal  and  everlasting 
strain.  Self-abnegation,  by  which  we  lay  down  all  for 
Truth,  or  Christ,  in  our  warfare  against  error,  is  a  rule  in 
Christian  Science.  This  rule  clearly  interprets  God  as 


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divine  Principle,  —  as  Life,  represented  by  the  Father; 
as  Truth,  represented  by  the  Son;  as  Love,  represented 
by  the  mother.  Every  mortal  at  some  period,  here  or  here- 
after, must  grapple  with  and  overcome  the  mortal  belief 
in  a  power  opposed  to  God. 

The  Scripture,  "Thou  hast  been  faithful  over  a  few 
things,  I  will  make  thee  ruler  over  many,"  is  literally  ful- 
filled, when  we  are  conscious  of  the  supremacy  of  Truth, 
by  which  the  nothingness  of  error  is  seen;  and  we  know 
that  the  nothingness  of  error  is  in  proportion  to  its  wicked- 
ness. He  that  touches  the  hem  of  Christ's  robe  and  masters 
his  mortal  beliefs,  animality,  and  hate,  rejoices  in  the  proof 
of  healing,  —  in  a  sweet  and  certain  sense  that  God  is 
Love.  Alas  for  those  who  break  faith  with  divine  Science 
and  fail  to  strangle  the  serpent  of  sin  as  well  as  of  sickness ! 
They  are  dwellers  still  in  the  deep  darkness  of  belief. 
They  are  in  the  surging  sea  of  error,  not  struggling  to  lift 
their  heads  above  the  drowning  wave. 

What  must  the  end  be  ?  They  must  eventually  expiate 
their  sin  through  suffering.  The  sin,  which  one  has  made 
his  bosom  companion,  comes  back  to  him  at  last  with 
accelerated  force,  for  the  devil  knoweth  his  time  is  short. 
Here  the  Scriptures  declare  that  evil  is  temporal,  not 
eternal.  The  dragon  is  at  last  stung  to  death  by  his  own 
malice;  but  how  many  periods  of  torture  it  may  take  to 
remove  all  sin,  must  depend  upon  sin's  obduracy. 

Revelation  xii.  13.  And  when  the  dragon  saw  that  he  was 
cast  unto  the  earth,  he  persecuted  the  woman  which  brought 
forth  the  man  child. 


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The  march  of  mind  and  of  honest  investigation  will 
bring  the  hour  when  the  people  will  chain,  with  fetters  of 
some  sort,  the  growing  occultism  of  this  period.  The 
present  apathy  as  to  the  tendency  of  certain  active  yet  un- 
seen mental  agencies  will  finally  be  shocked  into  another 
extreme  mortal  mood,  —  into  human  indignation ;  for 
one  extreme  follows  another. 

Revelation  xii.  15,  16.  And  the  serpent  cast  out  of  his 
mouth  water  as  a  flood,  after  the  woman,  that  he  might 
cause  her  to  be  carried  away  of  the  flood.  And  the  earth 
helped  the  woman,  and  the  earth  opened  her  mouth,  and 
swallowed  up  the  flood  which  the  dragon  cast  out  of  his 
mouth. 

Millions  of  unprejudiced  minds  —  simple  seekers  for 
Truth,  weary  wanderers,  athirst  in  the  desert  —  are  wait- 
ing and  watching  for  rest  and  drink.  Give  them  a  cup  of 
cold  water  in  Christ's  name,  and  never  fear  the  conse- 
quences. What  if  the  old  dragon  should  send  forth  a  new 
flood  to  drown  the  Christ-idea?  He  can  neither  drown 
your  voice  with  its  roar,  nor  again  sink  the  world  into  the 
deep  waters  of  chaos  and  old  night.  In  this  age  the  earth 
will  help  the  woman ;  the  spiritual  idea  will  be  understood. 
Those  ready  for  the  blessing  you  impart  will  give  thanks. 
The  waters  will  be  pacified,  and  Christ  will  command  the 
wave. 

When  God  heals  the  sick  or  the  sinning,  they  should 
know  the  great  benefit  which  Mind  has  wrought.  They 
should  also  know  the  great  delusion  of  mortal  mind,  when 
it  makes  them  sick  or  sinful.  Many  are  willing  to  open 


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the  eyes  of  the  people  to  the  power  of  good  resident  in 
divine  Mind,  but  they  are  not  so  willing  to  point  out  the 
evil  in  human  thought,  and  expose  eviPs  hidden  mental 
ways  of  accomplishing  iniquity. 

Why  this  backwardness,  since  exposure  is  necessary  to 
ensure  the  avoidance  of  the  evil?  Because  people  like 
you  better  when  you  tell  them  their  virtues  than  when  you 
tell  them  their  vices.  It  requires  the  spirit  of  our  blessed 
Master  to  tell  a  man  his  faults,  and  so  risk  human  dis- 
pleasure for  the  sake  of  doing  right  and  benefiting  our 
race.  Who  is  telling  mankind  of  the  foe  in  ambush  ?  Is 
the  informer  one  who  sees  the  foe?  If  so,  listen  and  be 
wise.  Escape  from  evil,  and  designate  those  as  unfaithful 
stewards  who  have  seen  the  danger  and  yet  have  given 
no  warning. 

At  all  times  and  under  all  circumstances,  overcome  evil 
with  good.  Know  thyself,  and  God  will  supply  the  wisdom 
and  the  occasion  for  a  victory  over  evil.  Clad  in  the 
panoply  of  Love,  human  hatred  cannot  reach  you.  The 
cement  of  a  higher  humanity  will  unite  all  interests  in  the 
one  divinity. 


HYMNS 

BY  REV.  MARY  BAKER  EDDY 
[Set  to  the  Church  Chimes  and  Sung  on  This  Occasion] 

LAYING  THE  CORNER-STONE 

Laus  Deo,  it  is  done ! 

Rolled  away  from  loving  heart 

Is  a  stone. 
Joyous,  risen,  we  depart 

Having  one. 

Laus  Deo,  —  on  this  rock 
(Heaven  chiselled  squarely  good) 

Stands  His  church,  — 
God  is  Love,  and  understood 

By  His  flock. 

Laus  Deo,  night  starlit 
Slumbers  not  in  God's  embrace ; 

Then,  O  man ! 
Like  this  stone,  be  in  thy  place; 

Stand,  not  sit. 

Cold,  silent,  stately  stone, 

Dirge  and  song  and  shoutings  low, 

In  thy  heart 
Dwell  serene,  —  and  sorrow  ?    No, 

It  has  none, 

Laus  Deo! 


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"FEED  MY  SHEEP" 

Shepherd,  show  me  how  to  go 

O'er  the  hillside  steep, 
How  to  gather,  how  to  sow,  — 

How  to  feed  Thy  sheep; 
I  will  listen  for  Thy  voice, 

Lest  my  footsteps  stray; 
I  will  follow  and  rejoice 

All  the  rugged  way. 

Thou  wilt  bind  the  stubborn  will, 

Wound  the  callous  breast, 
Make  self-righteousness  be  still, 

Break  earth's  stupid  rest. 
Strangers  on  a  barren  shore, 

Laboring  long  and  lone  — 
We  would  enter  by  the  door, 

And  Thou  know'st  Thine  own. 

So,  when  day  grows  dark  and  cold, 

Tear  or  triumph  harms, 
Lead  Thy  lambkins  to  the  fold, 

Take  them  in  Thine  arms; 
Feed  the  hungry,  heal  the  heart, 

Till  the  morning's  beam; 
White  as  wool,  ere  they  depart  — 

Shepherd,  wash  them  clean. 


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CHRIST  MY  REFUGE 

O'er  waiting  harpstrings  of  the  mind 

There  sweeps  a  strain, 
Low,  sad,  and  sweet,  whose  measures  bind 

The  power  of  pain. 

And  wake  a  white-winged  angel  throng 

Of  thoughts,  illumed 
By  faith,  and  breathed  in  raptured  song, 

With  love  perfumed. 

Then  his  unveiled,  sweet  mercies  show 

Life's  burdens  light. 
I  kiss  the  cross,  and  wait  to  know 

A  world  more  bright. 

And  o'er  earth's  troubled,  angry  sea 

I  see  Christ  walk, 
And  come  to  me,  and  tenderly, 

Divinely  talk. 

Thus  Truth  engrounds  me  on  the  rock, 

Upon  Life's  shore; 
'Gainst  which  the  winds  and  waves  can  shock, 

Oh,  nevermore! 

From  tired  joy  and  grief  afar, 

And  nearer  Thee,  — 
Father,  where  Thine  own  children  are, 

I  love  to  be. 


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My  prayer,  some  daily  good  to  do 

To  Thine,  for  Thee; 
Some  offering  pure  of  Love,  whereto 

God  leadeth  me. 


NOTE 

BY  REV.  MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

The  land  whereon  stands  The  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  in  Boston,  was  first  purchased  by  the  church 
and  society.  Owing  to  a  heavy  loss,  they  were  unable  to 
pay  the  mortgage;  therefore  I  paid  it,  and  through  trustees 
gave  back  the  land  to  the  church. 

In  1892  I  had  to  recover  the  land  from  the  trustees,  re- 
organize the  church,  and  reobtain  its  charter  —  not,  how- 
ever, through  the  State  Commissioner,  who  refused  to 
grant  it,  but  by  means  of  a  statute  of  the  State,  and  through 
Directors  regive  the  land  to  the  church.  In  1895  I  recon- 
structed my  original  system  of  ministry  and  church  gov- 
ernment. Thus  committed  to  the  providence  of  God,  the 
prosperity  of  this  church  is  unsurpassed. 

From  first  to  last  The  Mother  Church  seemed  type  and 
shadow  of  the  warfare  between  the  flesh  and  Spirit,  even 
that  shadow  whose  substance  is  the  divine  Spirit,  im- 
peratively propelling  the  greatest  moral,  physical,  civil, 
and  religious  reform  ever  known  on  earth.  In  the  words 
of  the  prophet:  "The  shadow  of  a  great  rock  in  a  weary 
land." 

This  church  was  dedicated  on  January  6,  anciently  one 
of  the  many  dates  selected  and  observed  in  the  East  as  the 
day  of  the  birth  and  baptism  of  our  master  Metaphysician, 
Jesus  of  Nazareth. 


NOTE  21 

Christian  Scientists,  their  children  and  grandchildren 
to  the  latest  generations,  inevitably  love  one  another  with 
that  love  wherewith  Christ  loveth  us;  a  love  unselfish, 
unambitious,  impartial,  universal,  —  that  loves  only  be- 
cause it  is  Love.  Moreover,  they  love  their  enemies,  even 
those  that  hate  them.  This  we  all  must  do  to  be  Christian 
Scientists  in  spirit  and  in  truth.  I  long,  and  live,  to  see 
this  love  demonstrated.  I  am  seeking  and  praying  for  it 
to  inhabit  my  own  heart  and  to  be  made  manifest  in  my 
life.  Who  will  unite  with  me  in  this  pure  purpose,  and 
faithfully  struggle  till  it  be  accomplished  ?  Let  this  be  our 
Christian  endeavor  society,  which  Christ  organizes  and 
blesses. 

While  we  entertain  due  respect  and  fellowship  for  what 
is  good  and  doing  good  in  all  denominations  of  religion, 
and  shun  whatever  would  isolate  us  from  a  true  sense  of 
goodness  in  others,  we  cannot  serve  mammon. 

Christian  Scientists  are  really  united  to  only  that  which 
is  Christlike,  but  they  are  not  indifferent  to  the  welfare  of 
any  one.  To  perpetuate  a  cold  distance  between  our  de- 
nomination and  other  sects,  and  close  the  door  on  church 
or  individuals  —  however  much  this  is  done  to  us  —  is 
not  Christian  Science.  Go  not  into  the  way  of  the  un- 
christly,  but  wheresoever  you  recognize  a  clear  expression 
of  God's  likeness,  there  abide  in  confidence  and  hope. 

Our  unity  with  churches  of  other  denominations  must 
rest  on  the  spirit  of  Christ  calling  us  together.  It  cannot 
come  from  any  other  source.  Popularity,  self-aggrandize- 
ment, aught  that  can  darken  in  any  degree  our  spirituality, 
must  be  set  aside.  Only  what  feeds  and  fills  the  sentiment 


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with  unworldliness,  can  give  peace  and  good  will  towards 
men. 

All  Christian  churches  have  one  bond  of  unity,  one 
nucleus  or  point  of  convergence,  one  prayer,  —  the  Lord's 
Prayer.  It  is  matter  for  rejoicing  that  we  unite  in  love, 
and  in  this  sacred  petition  with  every  praying  assembly 
on  earth,  —  "  Thy  kingdom  come.  Thy  will  be  done  in 
earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven." 

If  the  lives  of  Christian  Scientists  attest  their  fidelity 
to  Truth,  I  predict  that  in  the  twentieth  century  every 
Christian  church  in  our  land,  and  a  few  in  far-off  lands, 
will  approximate  the  understanding  of  Christian  Science 
sufficiently  to  heal  the  sick  in  his  name.  Christ  will  give 
to  Christianity  his  new  name,  and  Christendom  will  be 
classified  as  Christian  Scientists. 

When  the  doctrinal  barriers  between  the  churches  are 
broken,  and  the  bonds  of  peace  are  cemented  by  spiritual 
understanding  and  Love,  there  will  be  unity  of  spirit,  and 
the  healing  power  of  Christ  will  prevail.  Then  shall  Zion 
have  put  on  her  most  beautiful  garments,  and  her  waste 
places  budded  and  blossomed  as  the  rose. 


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[Daily  Inter-Ocean,  Chicago,  December  31,  1894] 
MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

COMPLETION  OF  THE  FIRST  CHURCH  OF  CHRIST,  SCIENTIST,  BOSTON 
—  "OuR  PRAYER  IN  STONE"  —  DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  MOST 
UNIQUE  STRUCTURE  IN  ANY  CITY  —  A  BEAUTIFUL  TEMPLE 
AND  ITS  FURNISHINGS  —  MRS.  EDDY'S  WORK  AND  HER  IN- 
FLUENCE 

Boston,  Mass.,  December  28.  —  Special  Correspond- 
ence. —  The  "great  awakening"  of  the  time  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  has  been  paralleled  during  the  last  decade  by  a 
wave  of  idealism  that  has  swept  over  the  country,  mani- 
festing itself  under  several  different  aspects  and  under 
various  names,  but  each  having  the  common  identity  of 
spiritual  demand.  This  movement,  under  the  guise  of 
Christian  Science,  and  ingenuously  calling  out  a  closer 
inquiry  into  Oriental  philosophy,  prefigures  itself  to  us 
as  one  of  the  most  potent  factors  in  the  social  evolution 
of  the  last  quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century.  History 
shows  the  curious  fact  that  the  closing  years  of  every  cen- 
tury are  years  of  more  intense  life,  manifested  in  unrest 
or  in  aspiration,  and  scholars  of  special  research,  like 
Prof.  Max  Muller,  assert  that  the  end  of  a  cycle,  as  is  the 
latter  part  of  the  present  century,  is  marked  by  peculiar 
intimations  of  man's  immortal  life. 


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The  completion  of  the  first  Christian  Science  church 
erected  in  Boston  strikes  a  keynote  of  definite  attention. 
This  church  is  in  the  fashionable  Back  Bay,  between 
Commonwealth  and  Huntington  Avenues.  It  is  one  of 
the  most  beautiful,  and  is  certainly  the  most  unique  struc- 
ture in  any  city.  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
as  it  is  officially  called,  is  termed  by  its  Founder,  "  Our 
prayer  in  stone."  It  is  located  at  the  intersection  of  Nor- 
way and  Falmouth  Streets,  on  a  triangular  plot  of  ground, 
the  design  a  Romanesque  tower  with  a  circular  front  and 
an  octagonal  form,  accented  by  stone  porticos  and  turreted 
corners.  On  the  front  is  a  marble  tablet,  with  the  follow- 
ing inscription  carved  in  bold  relief :  — 

"The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  erected  Anno 
Domini  1894.  A  testimonial  to  our  beloved  teacher, 
the  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  Discoverer  and  Founder 
of  Christian  Science;  author  of  "Science  and  Health 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures;"  president  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Metaphysical  College,  and  the  first  pastor  of 
this  denomination." 


THE   CHURCH   EDIFICE 

The  church  is  built  of  Concord  granite  in  light  gray, 
with  trimmings  of  the  pink  granite  of  New  Hampshire, 
Mrs.  Eddy's  native  State.  The  architecture  is  Romanesque 
throughout.  The  tower  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  in 
height  and  twenty-one  and  one  half  feet  square.  The  en- 
trances are  of  marble,  with  doors  of  antique  oak  richly 
carved.  The  windows  of  stained  glass  are  very  rich  in 


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pictorial  effect.  The  lighting  and  cooling  of  the  church  — 
for  cooling  is  a  recognized  feature  as  well  as  heating  — 
are  done  by  electricity,  and  the  heat  generated  by  two 
large  boilers  in  the  basement  is  distributed  by  the  four 
systems  with  motor  electric  power.  The  partitions  are 
of  iron;  the  floors  of  marble  in  mosaic  work,  and  the 
edifice  is  therefore  as  literally  fire-proof  as  is  conceivable. 
The  principal  features  are  the  auditorium,  seating  eleven 
hundred  people  and  capable  of  holding  fifteen  hundred; 
the  "Mother's  Room,"  designed  for  the  exclusive  use  of 
Mrs.  Eddy;  the  "directors'  room,"  and  the  vestry.  The 
girders  are  all  of  iron,  the  roof  is  of  terra  cotta  tiles,  the 
galleries  are  in  plaster  relief,  the  window  frames  are  of 
iron,  coated  with  plaster;  the  staircases  are  of  iron,  with 
marble  stairs  of  rose  pink,  and  marble  approaches. 

The  vestibule  is  a  fitting  entrance  to  this  magnificent 
temple.  In  the  ceiling  is  a  sunburst  with  a  seven-pointed 
star,  which  illuminates  it.  From  this  are  the  entrances 
leading  to  the  auditorium,  the  "Mother's  Room,"  and 
the  directors'  room. 

The  auditorium  is  seated  with  pews  of  curly  birch,  up- 
holstered in  old  rose  plush.  The  floor  is  in  white  Italian 
mosaic,  with  frieze  of  the  old  rose,  and  the  wainscoting 
repeats  the  same  tints.  The  base  and  cap  are  of  pink 
Tennessee  marble.  On  the  walls  are  bracketed  oxidized 
silver  lamps  of  Roman  design,  and  there  are  frequent 
illuminated  texts  from  the  Bible  and  from  Mrs.  Eddy's 
"Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures"  im- 
panelled. A  sunburst  in  the  centre  of  the  ceiling  takes 
the  place  of  chandeliers.  There  is  a  disc  of  cut  glass  in 


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decorative  designs,  covering  one  hundred  and  forty-four 
electric  lights  in  the  form  of  a  star,  which  is  twenty-one 
inches  from  point  to  point,  the  centre  being  of  pure  white 
light,  and  each  ray  under  prisms  which  reflect  the  rainbow 
tints.  The  galleries  are  richly  panelled  in  relief  work. 
The  organ  and  choir  gallery  is  spacious  and  rich  beyond 
the  power  of  words  to  depict.  The  platform  —  corre- 
sponding to  the  chancel  of  an  Episcopal  church  —  is  a 
mosaic  work,  with  richly  carved  seats  following  the  sweep 
of  its  curve,  with  a  lamp  stand  of  the  Renaissance  period 
on  either  end,  bearing  six  richly  wrought  oxidized  silver 
lamps,  eight  feet  in  height.  The  great  organ  comes  from 
Detroit.  It  is  one  of  vast  compass,  with  JSolian  attach- 
ment, and  cost  eleven  thousand  dollars.  It  is  the  gift  of 
a  single  individual  —  a  votive  offering  of  gratitude  for  the 
healing  of  the  wife  of  the  donor. 

The  chime  of  bells  includes  fifteen,  of  fine  range  and 
perfect  tone. 


The  "Mother's  Room"  is  approached  by  an  entrance  of 
Italian  marble,  and  over  the  door,  in  large  golden  letters  on 
a  marble  tablet,  is  the  word  "Love."  In  this  room  the 
mosaic  marble  floor  of  white  has  a  Romanesque  border  and 
is  decorated  with  sprays  of  fig  leaves  bearing  fruit.  The 
room  is  toned  in  pale  green  with  relief  in  old  rose.  The 
mantel  is  of  onyx  and  gold.  Before  the  great  bay  window 
hangs  an  Athenian  lamp  over  two  hundred  years  old, 
which  will  be  kept  always  burning  day  and  night.  Lead- 


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ing  off  the  "Mother's  Room"  are  toilet  apartments,  with 
full-length  French  mirrors  and  every  convenience. 

The  directors'  room  is  very  beautiful  in  marble  ap- 
proaches and  rich  carving,  and  off  this  is  a  vault  for  the 
safe  preservation  of  papers. 

The  vestry  seats  eight  hundred  people,  and  opening  from 
it  are  three  large  class-rooms  and  the  pastor's  study. 

The  windows  are  a  remarkable  feature  of  this  temple. 
There  are  no  "memorial"  windows;  the  entire  church  is  a 
testimonial,  not  a  memorial  —  a  point  that  the  members 
strongly  insist  upon. 

In  the  auditorium  are  two  rose  windows  —  one  repre- 
senting the  heavenly  city  which  "cometh  down  from  God 
out  of  heaven,"  with  six  small  windows  beneath,  emblem- 
atic of  the  six  water-pots  referred  to  in  John  ii.  6.  The 
other  rose  window  represents  the  raising  of  the  daughter 
of  Jairus.  Beneath  are  two  small  windows  bearing  palms 
of  victory,  and  others  with  lamps,  typical  of  Science  and 
Health. 

Another  great  window  tells  its  pictorial  story  of  the  four 
Marys  —  the  mother  of  Jesus,  Mary  anointing  the  head  of 
Jesus,  Mary  washing  the  feet  of  Jesus,  Mary  at  the  resur- 
rection; and  the  woman  spoken  of  in  the  Apocalypse, 
chapter  12,  God-crowned. 

One  more  window  in  the  auditorium  represents  the 
raising  of  Lazarus. 

In  the  gallery  are  windows  representing  John  on  the 
Isle  of  Patmos,  and  others  of  pictorial  significance.  In 
the  "  Mother's  Room  "  the  windows  are  of  still  more  unique 
interest.  A  large  bay  window,  composed  of  three  separate 


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panels,  is  designed  to  be  wholly  typical  of  the  work  of  Mrs. 
Eddy.  The  central  panel  represents  her  in  solitude  and 
meditation,  searching  the  Scriptures  by  the  light  of  a  single 
candle,  while  the  star  of  Bethlehem  shines  down  from  above. 
Above  this  is  a  panel  containing  the  Christian  Science  seal, 
and  other  panels  are  decorated  with  emblematic  designs, 
with  the  legends,  "Heal  the  Sick,"  "Raise  the  Dead/' 
"Cleanse  the  Lepers,"  and  "Cast  out  Demons." 

The  cross  and  the  crown  and  the  star  are  presented  in 
appropriate  decorative  effect.  The  cost  of  this  church  is 
two  hundred  and  twenty-one  thousand  dollars,  exclusive 
of  the  land  —  a  gift  from  Mrs.  Eddy  —  which  is  valued 
at  some  forty  thousand  dollars. 


THE  ORDER  OF  SERVICE 

The  order  of  service  in  the  Christian  Science  Church 
does  not  differ  widely  from  that  of  any  other  sect,  save  that 
its  service  includes  the  use  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  book,  entitled 
"Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  in  per- 
haps equal  measure  to  its  use  of  the  Bible.  The  reading 
is  from  the  two  alternately ;  the  singing  is  from  a  compila- 
tion called  the  "  Christian  Science  Hymnal,"  but  its  songs 
are  for  the  most  part  those  devotional  hymns  from  Herbert, 
Faber,  Robertson,  Wesley,  Browning,  and  other  recog- 
nized devotional  poets,  with  selections  from  Whittier  and 
Lowell,  as  are  found  in  the  hymn-books  of  the  Unitarian 
churches.  For  the  past  year  or  two  Judge  Hanna,  for- 
merly of  Chicago,  has  filled  the  office  of  pastor  to  the 
church  in  this  city,  which  held  its  meetings  in  Chickering 


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Hall,  and  later  in  Copley  Hall,  in  the  new  Grundmann 
Studio  Building  on  Copley  Square.  Preceding  Judge 
Hanna  were  Rev.  D.  A.  Easton  and  Rev.  L.  P.  Norcross, 
both  of  whom  had  formerly  been  Congregational  clergy- 
men. The  organizer  and  first  pastor  of  the  church  here 
was  Mrs.  Eddy  herself,  of  whose  work  I  shall  venture  to 
speak,  a  little  later,  in  this  article. 

Last  Sunday  I  gave  myself  the  pleasure  of  attending  the 
service  held  in  Copley  Hall.  The  spacious  apartment  was 
thronged  with  a  congregation  whose  remarkable  earnest- 
ness impressed  the  observer.  There  was  no  straggling 
of  late-comers.  Before  the  appointed  hour  every  seat  in  the 
hall  was  filled  and  a  large  number  of  chairs  pressed  into 
service  for  the  overflowing  throng.  The  music  was  spirited, 
and  the  selections  from  the  Bible  and  from  Science  and 
Health  were  finely  read  by  Judge  Hanna.  Then  came  his 
sermon,  which  dealt  directly  with  the  command  of  Christ 
to  "heal  the  sick,  raise  the  dead,  cleanse  the  lepers,  cast 
out  demons."  In  his  admirable  discourse  Judge  Hanna 
said  that  while  all  these  injunctions  could,  under  certain 
conditions,  be  interpreted  and  fulfilled  literally,  the 
special  lesson  was  to  be  taken  spiritually  —  to  cleanse  the 
leprosy  of  sin,  to  cast  out  the  demons  of  evil  thought. 
The  discourse  was  able,  and  helpful  in  its  suggestive 
interpretation. 


THE   CHURCH  MEMBERS 

Later  I  was  told  that  almost  the  entire  congregation  was 
composed  of  persons  who  had  either  been  themselves,  or 


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had  seen  members  of  their  own  families,  healed  by  Chris- 
tian Science  treatment;  and  I  was  further  told  that  once 
when  a  Boston  clergyman  remonstrated  with  Judge  Hanna 
for  enticing  a  separate  congregation  rather  than  offering 
their  strength  to  unite  with  churches  already  established  — 
I  was  told  he  replied  that  the  Christian  Science  Church  did 
not  recruit  itself  from  other  churches,  but  from  the  grave- 
yards !  The  church  numbers  now  four  thousand  members ; 
but  this  estimate,  as  I  understand,  is  not  limited  to  the 
Boston  adherents,  but  includes  those  all  over  the  country. 
The  ceremonial  of  uniting  is  to  sign  a  brief  "confession  of 
faith,"  written  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  to  unite  in  communion, 
which  is  not  celebrated  by  outward  symbols  of  bread  and 
wine,  but  by  uniting  in  silent  prayer. 

The  "confession  of  faith"  includes  the  declaration  that 
the  Scriptures  are  the  guide  to  eternal  Life ;  that  there  is  a 
Supreme  Being,  and  His  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  and 
that  man  is  made  in  His  image.  It  affirms  the  atonement ; 
it  recognizes  Jesus  as  the  teacher  and  guide  to  salvation; 
the  forgiveness  of  sin  by  God,  and  affirms  the  power  of 
Truth  over  error,  and  the  need  of  living  faith  at  the 
moment  to  realize  the  possibilities  of  the  divine  Life. 
The  entire  membership  of  Christian  Scientists  throughout 
the  world  now  exceeds  two  hundred  thousand  people.  The 
church  in  Boston  was  organized  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  the 
first  meeting  held  on  April  19,  1879.  It  opened  with 
twenty-six  members,  and  within  fifteen  years  it  has  grown 
to  its  present  impressive  proportions,  and  has  now  its  own 
magnificent  church  building,  costing  over  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  and  entirely  paid  for  when  its  consecra- 


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tion  service  on  January  6  shall  be  celebrated.    This  is 
certainly  a  very  remarkable  retrospect. 

Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  Founder  of  this  denomina- 
tion and  Discoverer  of  Christian  Science,  as  they  term  her 
work  in  affirming  the  present  application  of  the  principles 
asserted  by  Jesus,  is  a  most  interesting  personality.  At 
the  risk  of  colloquialism,  I  am  tempted  to  "begin  at  the 
beginning"  of  my  own  knowledge  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  take, 
as  the  point  of  departure,  my  first  meeting  with  her  and 
the  subsequent  development  of  some  degree  of  familiarity 
with  the  work  of  her  life  which  that  meeting  inaugurated 
for  me. 


MRS.    EDDY 

It  was  during  some  year  in  the  early  '80's  that  I  became 
aware  —  from  that  close  contact  with  public  feeling  result- 
ing from  editorial  work  in  daily  journalism  —  that  the 
Boston  atmosphere  was  largely  thrilled  and  pervaded  by  a 
new  and  increasing  interest  in  the  dominance  of  mind  over 
matter,  and  that  the  central  figure  in  all  this  agitation  was 
Mrs.  Eddy.  To  a  note  which  I  wrote  her,  begging  the 
favor  of  an  interview  for  press  use,  she  most  kindly  replied, 
naming  an  evening  on  which  she  would  receive  me.  At 
the  hour  named  I  rang  the  bell  at  a  spacious  house  on 
Columbus  Avenue,  and  I  was  hardly  more  than  seated  be- 
fore Mrs.  Eddy  entered  the  room.  She  impressed  me  as 
singularly  graceful  and  winning  in  bearing  and  manner, 
and  with  great  claim  to  personal  beauty.  Her  figure  was 
tall,  slender,  and  as  flexible  in  movement  as  that  of  a  Del- 


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sarte  disciple;  her  face,  framed  in  dark  hair  and  lighted 
by  luminous  blue  eyes,  had  the  transparency  and  rose-flush 
of  tint  so  often  seen  in  New  England,  and  she  was  magnetic, 
earnest,  impassioned.  No  photographs  can  do  the  least 
justice  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  as  her  beautiful  complexion  and 
changeful  expression  cannot  thus  be  reproduced.  At  once 
one  would  perceive  that  she  had  the  temperament  to  domi- 
nate, to  lead,  to  control,  not  by  any  crude  self-assertion,  but 
a  spiritual  animus.  Of  course  such  a  personality,  with  the 
wonderful  tumult  in  the  air  that  her  large  and  enthusiastic 
following  excited,  fascinated  the  imagination.  What  had 
she  originated?  I  mentally  questioned  this  modern  St. 
Catherine,  who  was  dominating  her  followers  like  any  ab- 
bess of  old.  She  told  me  the  story  of  her  life,  so  far  as  out- 
ward events  may  translate  those  inner  experiences  which 
alone  are  significant. 

Mary  Baker  was  the  daughter  of  Mark  and  Abigail 
(Ambrose)  Baker,  and  was  born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  some- 
where in  the  early  decade  of  1820-'30.  At  the  time  I  met 
her  she  must  have  been  some  sixty  years  of  age,  yet  she  had 
the  coloring  and  the  elastic  bearing  of  a  woman  of  thirty, 
and  this,  she  told  me,  was  due  to  the  principles  of  Chris- 
tian Science.  On  her  father's  side  Mrs.  Eddy  came  from 
Scotch  and  English  ancestry,  and  Hannah  More  was  a 
relative  of  her  grandmother.  Deacon  Ambrose,  her  mater- 
nal grandfather,  was  known  as  a  "godly  man,"  and  her 
mother  was  a  religious  enthusiast,  a  saintly  and  consecrated 
character.  One  of  her  brothers,  Albert  Baker,  graduated 
at  Dartmouth  and  achieved  eminence  as  a  lawyer. 


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MRS.   EDDY  AS  A  CHILD 

As  a  child  Mary  Baker  saw  visions  and  dreamed  dreams. 
When  eight  years  of  age  she  began,  like  Jeanne  d'Arc,  to 
hear  "voices,"  and  for  a  year  she  heard  her  name  called 
distinctly,  and  would  often  run  to  her  mother  questioning 
if  she  were  wanted.  One  night  the  mother  related  to  her 
the  story  of  Samuel,  and  bade  her,  if  she  heard  the  voice 
again  to  reply  as  he  did :  "  Speak,  Lord,  for  Thy  servant 
heareth."  The  call  came,  but  the  little  maid  was  afraid 
and  did  not  reply.  This  caused  her  tears  of  remorse  and 
she  prayed  for  forgiveness,  and  promised  to  reply  if  the  call 
came  again.  It  came,  and  she  answered  as  her  mother  had 
bidden  her,  and  after  that  it  ceased. 

These  experiences,  of  which  Catholic  biographies  are 
full,  and  which  history  not  infrequently  emphasizes,  cer- 
tainly offer  food  for  meditation.  Theodore  Parker  related 
that  when  he  was  a  lad,  at  work  in  a  field  one  day  on  his 
father's  farm  at  Lexington,  an  old  man  with  a  snowy  beard 
suddenly  appeared  at  his  side,  and  walked  with  him  as  he 
worked,  giving  him  high  counsel  and  serious  thought.  All 
inquiry  in  the  neighborhood  as  to  whence  the  stranger 
came  or  whither  he  went  was  fruitless;  no  one  else  had 
seen  him,  and  Mr.  Parker  always  believed,  so  a  friend  has 
told  me,  that  his  visitor  was  a  spiritual  form  from  another 
world.  It  is  certainly  true  that  many  and  many  persons, 
whose  life  has  been  destined  to  more  than  ordinary  achieve- 
ment, have  had  experiences  of  voices  or  visions  in  their 
early  youth. 


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At  an  early  age  Miss  Baker  was  married  to  Colonel 
Glover,  of  Charleston,  S.  C.,  who  lived  only  a  year.  She 
returned  to  her  father's  home  —  in  1844  —  and  from  that 
time  until  1866  no  special  record  is  to  be  made. 

In  1866,  while  living  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  Mrs.  Eddy  (then 
Mrs.  Glover)  met  with  a  severe  accident,  and  her  case 
was  pronounced  hopeless  by  the  physicians.  There  came 
a  Sunday  morning  when  her  pastor  came  to  bid  her  good- 
by  before  proceeding  to  his  morning  service,  as  there  was 
no  probability  that  she  would  be  alive  at  its  close.  During 
this  time  she  suddenly  became  aware  of  a  divine  illumina- 
tion and  ministration.  She  requested  those  with  her  to 
withdraw,  and  reluctantly  they  did  so,  believing  her  de- 
lirious. Soon,  to  their  bewilderment  and  fright,  she  walked 
into  the  adjoining  room,  "and  they  thought  I  had  died, 
and  that  it  was  my  apparition,"  she  said. 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  DIVINE  HEALING 

From  that  hour  dated  her  conviction  of  the  Principle  of 
divine  healing,  and  that  it  is  as  true  to-day  as  it  was  in  the 
days  when  Jesus  of  Nazareth  walked  the  earth.  "I  felt 
that  the  divine  Spirit  had  wrought  a  miracle,"  she  said,  in 
reference  to  this  experience.  "How,  I  could  not  tell,  but 
later  I  found  it  to  be  in  perfect  scientific  accord  with  the 
divine  law."  From  1866-'69  Mrs.  Eddy  withdrew  from  the 
world  to  meditate,  to  pray,  to  search  the  Scriptures. 

"During  this  time,"  she  said,  in  reply  to  my  questions, 
"  the  Bible  was  my  only  textbook.  It  answered  my  ques- 
tions as  to  the  process  by  which  I  was  restored  to  health; 


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it  came  to  me  with  a  new  meaning,  and  suddenly  I  appre- 
hended the  spiritual  meaning  of  the  teaching  of  Jesus  and 
the  Principle  and  the  law  involved  in  spiritual  Science 
and  metaphysical  healing  —  in  a  word  —  Christian 
Science." 

Mrs.  Eddy  came  to  perceive  that  Christ's  healing  was  not 
miraculous,  but  was  simply  a  natural  fulfilment  of  divine 
law  —  a  law  as  operative  in  the  world  to-day  as  it  was 
nineteen  hundred  years  ago.  "  Divine  Science  is  begotten 
of  spirituality,"  she  says,  "since  only  the  'pure  in  heart* 
can  see  God." 

In  writing  of  this  experience,  Mrs.  Eddy  has  said :  — 

"I  had  learned  that  thought  must  be  spiritualized  in 
order  to  apprehend  Spirit.  It  must  become  honest,  un- 
selfish, and  pure,  in  order  to  have  the  least  understanding 
of  God  in  divine  Science.  The  first  must  become  last. 
Our  reliance  upon  material  things  must  be  transferred  to 
a  perception  of  and  dependence  on  spiritual  things.  For 
Spirit  to  be  supreme  in  demonstration,  it  must  be  supreme 
in  our  affections,  and  we  must  be  clad  with  divine  power. 
I  had  learned  that  Mind  reconstructed  the  body,  and  that 
nothing  else  could.  All  Science  is  a  revelation." 

Through  homoeopathy,  too,  Mrs.  Eddy  became  con- 
vinced of  the  Principle  of  Mind-healing,  discovering  that 
the  more  attenuated  the  drug,  the  more  potent  was  its 
effects. 

In  1877  Mrs.  Glover  married  Dr.  Asa  Gilbert  Eddy,  of 
Londonderry,  Vermont,  a  physician  who  had  come  into 
sympathy  with  her  own  views,  and  who  was  the  first  to 
place  "Christian  Scientist"  on  the  sign  at  his  door.  Dr. 


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Eddy  died  in  1882,  a  year  after  her  founding  of  the  Meta- 
physical College  in  Boston,  in  which  he  taught. 

The  work  in  the  Metaphysical  College  lasted  nine  years, 
and  it  was  closed  (in  1889)  in  the  very  zenith  of  its  pros- 
perity, as  Mrs.  Eddy  felt  it  essential  to  the  deeper  founda- 
tion of  her  religious  work  to  retire  from  active  contact  with 
the  world.  To  this  College  came  hundreds  and  hundreds 
of  students,  from  Europe  as  well  as  this  country.  I  was 
present  at  the  class  lectures  now  and  then,  by  Mrs.  Eddy's 
kind  invitation,  and  such  earnestness  of  attention  as  was 
given  to  her  morning  talks  by  the  men  and  women  present 
I  never  saw  equalled. 


MRS.  EDDY'S  PERSONALITY 


On  the  evening  that  I  first  met  Mrs.  Eddy  by  her  hos- 
pitable courtesy,  I  went  to  her  peculiarly  fatigued.  I  came 
away  in  a  state  of  exhilaration  and  energy  that  made  me 
feel  I  could  have  walked  any  conceivable  distance.  I  have 
met  Mrs.  Eddy  many  times  since  then,  and  always  with 
this  experience  repeated. 

Several  years  ago  Mrs.  Eddy  removed  from  Columbus 
to  Commonwealth  Avenue,  where,  just  beyond  Massa- 
chusetts Avenue,  at  the  entrance  to  the  Back  Bay  Park, 
she  bought  one  of  the  most  beautiful  residences  in  Boston. 
The  interior  is  one  of  the  utmost  taste  and  luxury,  and  the 
house  is  now  occupied  by  Judge  and  Mrs.  Hanna,  who  are 
the  editors  of  The  Christian  Science  Journal,  a  monthly 
publication,  and  to  whose  courtesy  I  am  much  indebted 
for  some  of  the  data  of  this  paper.  "It  is  a  pleasure  to 


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give  any  information  for  The  Inter-Ocean"  remarked 
Mrs.  Hanna,  "for  it  is  the  great  daily  that  is  so  fair  and  so 
just  in  its  attitude  toward  all  questions." 

The  increasing  demands  of  the  public  on  Mrs.  Eddy 
have  been,  it  may  be,  one  factor  in  her  removal  to  Concord, 
N.  H.,  where  she  has  a  beautiful  residence,  called  Pleasant 
View.  Her  health  is  excellent,  and  although  her  hair  is 
white,  she  retains  in  a  great  degree  her  energy  and  power ; 
she  takes  a  daily  walk  and  drives  in  the  afternoon.  She 
personally  attends  to  a  vast  correspondence;  superin- 
tends the  church  in  Boston,  and  is  engaged  on  further 
writings  on  Christian  Science.  In  every  sense  she  is  the 
recognized  head  of  the  Christian  Science  Church.  At  the 
same  time  it  is  her  most  earnest  aim  to  eliminate  the  ele- 
ment of  personality  from  the  faith.  "  On  this  point,  Mrs. 
Eddy  feels  very  strongly,"  said  a  gentleman  to  me  on 
Christmas  eve,  as  I  sat  in  the  beautiful  drawing-room, 
where  Judge  and  Mrs.  Hanna,  Miss  Elsie  Lincoln,  the 
soprano  for  the  choir  of  the  new  church,  and  one  or  two 
other  friends  were  gathered. 

"  Mother  feels  very  strongly,"  he  continued,  "  the  danger 
and  the  misfortune  of  a  church  depending  on  any  one 
personality.  It  is  difficult  not  to  centre  too  closely  around 
a  highly  gifted  personality." 


THE  FIRST  ASSOCIATION 

The  first  Christian  Scientist  Association  was  organized 
on  July  4,  1876,  by  seven  persons,  including  Mrs.  Eddy. 
In  April,  1879,  the  church  was  founded  with  twenty-six 


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members,  and  its  charter  obtained  the  following  June. 
Mrs.  Eddy  had  preached  in  other  parishes  for  five  years 
before  being  ordained  in  this  church,  which  ceremony 
took  place  in  1881. 

The  first  edition  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  book,  Science  and 
Health,  was  issued  in  1875.  During  these  succeeding 
twenty  years  it  has  been  greatly  revised  and  enlarged,  and 
it  is  now  in  its  ninety-first  edition.  It  consists  of  fourteen 
chapters,  whose  titles  are  as  follows:  "Science,  Theology, 
Medicine,"  "Physiology,"  "Footsteps  of  Truth,"  "Crea- 
tion," "Science  of  Being,"  "Christian  Science  and  Spirit- 
ualism," "Marriage,"  "Animal  Magnetism,"  "Some 
Objections  Answered,"  "Prayer,"  "Atonement  and  Eu- 
charist," "Christian  Science  Practice,"  "Teaching  Chris- 
tian Science,"  "Recapitulation."  Key  to  the  Scriptures, 
Genesis,  Apocalypse,  and  Glossary. 

The  Christian  Scientists  do  not  accept  the  belief  we  call 
spiritualism.  They  believe  those  who  have  passed  the 
change  of  death  are  in  so  entirely  different  a  plane  of  con- 
sciousness that  between  the  embodied  and  disembodied 
there  is  no  possibility  of  communication. 

They  are  diametrically  opposed  to  the  philosophy  of 
Karma  and  of  reincarnation,  which  are  the  tenets  of 
theosophy.  They  hold  with  strict  fidelity  to  what  they 
believe  to  be  the  literal  teachings  of  Christ. 

Yet  each  and  all  these  movements,  however  they  may 
differ  among  themselves,  are  phases  of  idealism  and  mani- 
festations of  a  higher  spirituality  seeking  expression. 

It  is  good  that  each  and  all  shall  prosper,  serving  those 
who  find  in  one  form  of  belief  or  another  their  best  aid 


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and  guidance,  and  that  all  meet  on  common  ground  in  the 
great  essentials  of  love  to  God  and  love  to  man  as  a  signal 
proof  of  the  divine  origin  of  humanity  which  finds  no  rest 
until  it  finds  the  peace  of  the  Lord  in  spirituality.  They 
all  teach  that  one  great  truth,  that 

God's  greatness  flows  around  our  incompleteness, 
Round  our  restlessness,  His  rest. 

ELIZABETH  BARRETT  BROWNING. 


I  add  on  the  following  page  a  little  poem  that  I  con- 
sider superbly  sweet  —  from  my  friend,  Miss  Whiting, 
the  talented  author  of  "The  World  Beautiful."  —  M.  B. 
EDDY. 

AT  THE  WINDOW 

[Written  for  the  Traveller] 

The  sunset,  burning  low, 

Throws  o'er  the  Charles  its  flood  of  golden  light. 
Dimly,  as  in  a  dream,  I  watch  the  flow 

Of  waves  of  light. 

The  splendor  of  the  sky 

Repeats  its  glory  in  the  river's  flow; 
And  sculptured  angels,  on  the  gray  church  tower, 

Gaze  on  the  world  below. 

Dimly,  as  in  a  dream, 

I  see  the  hurrying  throng  before  me  pass, 
But  "mid  them  all  I  only  see  one  face, 

Under  the  meadow  grass. 


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Ah,  love !  I  only  know 

How  thoughts  of  you  forever  cling  to  me: 
I  wonder  how  the  seasons  come  and  go 
Beyond  the  sapphire  sea? 

LILIAN  WHITING. 
April  15,  1888. 


[Boston  Herald,  January  7,  1895] 
[Extract] 

A  TEMPLE  GIVEN  TO  GOD — DEDICATION  OF  THE 
MOTHER  CHURCH  OF  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

NOVEL  METHOD  OF  ENABLING  Six  THOUSAND  BELIEVERS  TO 
ATTEND  THE  EXERCISES  —  THE  SERVICE  REPEATED  FOUR 
TIMES  —  SERMON  BY  REV.  MARY  BAKER  EDDY,  FOUNDER  OF 
THE  DENOMINATION  —  BEAUTIFUL  ROOM  WHICH  THE  CHILDREN 
BUILT 

With  simple  ceremonies,  four  times  repeated,  in  the 
presence  of  four  different  congregations,  aggregating 
nearly  six  thousand  persons,  the  unique  and  costly  edifice 
erected  in  Boston  at  Norway  and  Falmouth  Streets  as  a 
home  for  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  and  a 
testimonial  to  the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian 
Science,  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  was  yesterday  dedicated 
to  the  worship  of  God. 


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The  structure  came  forth  from  the  hands  of  the  artisans 
with  every  stone  paid  for  —  with  an  appeal,  not  for  more 
money,  but  for  a  cessation  of  the  tide  of  contributions 
which  continued  to  flow  in  after  the  full  amount  needed 
was  received.  From  every  State  in  the  Union,  and  from 
many  lands,  the  love-offerings  of  the  disciples  of  Christian 
Science  came  to  help  erect  this  beautiful  structure,  and 
more  than  four  thousand  of  these  contributors  came  to 
Boston,  from  the  far-off  Pacific  coast  and  the  Gulf  States 
and  all  the  territory  that  lies  between,  to  view  the  new- 
built  temple  and  to  listen  to  the  Message  sent  them  by 
the  teacher  they  revere. 

From  all  New  England  the  members  of  the  denomina- 
tion gathered;  New  York  sent  its  hundreds,  and  even 
from  the  distant  States  came  parties  of  forty  and  fifty. 
The  large  auditorium,  with  its  capacity  for  holding  from 
fourteen  hundred  to  fifteen  hundred  persons,  was  hopelessly 
incapable  of  receiving  this  vast  throng,  to  say  nothing  of 
nearly  a  thousand  local  believers.  Hence  the  service  was 
repeated  until  all  who  wished  had  heard  and  seen;  and 
each  of  the  four  vast  congregations  filled  the  church  to 
repletion. 

At  7 : 30  a.  m.  the  chimes  in  the  great  stone  tower,  which 
rises  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  feet  above  the  earth, 
rung  out  their  message  of  "On  earth  peace,  good  will 
toward  men." 

Old  familiar  hymns  —  "All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus' 
name,"  and  others  such  —  were  chimed  until  the  hour  for 
the  dedication  service  had  come. 

At  9  a.  m.  the  first  congregation  gathered.    Before  this 


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service  had  closed  the  large  vestry  room  and  the  spacious 
lobbies  and  the  sidewalks  around  the  church  were  all 
filled  with  a  waiting  multitude.  At  10 :  30  o'clock  another 
service  began,  and  at  noon  still  another.  Then  there  was 
an  intermission,  and  at  3  p.  m.  the  service  was  repeated 
for  the  last  time. 

There  was  scarcely  even  a  minor  variation  in  the  exer- 
cises at  any  one  of  these  services.  At  10: 30  a.  m.,  how- 
ever, the  scene  was  rendered  particularly  interesting  by 
the  presence  of  several  hundred  children  in  the  central 
pews.  These  were  the  little  contributors  to  the  building 
fund,  whose  money  was  devoted  to  the  "Mother's  Room," 
a  superb  apartment  intended  for  the  sole  use  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 
These  children  are  known  in  the  church  as  the  "Busy 
Bees,"  and  each  of  them  wore  a  white  satin  badge  with  a 
golden  beehive  stamped  upon  it,  and  beneath  the  beehive 
the  words,  "  Mother's  Room,"  in  gilt  letters. 

The  pulpit  end  of  the  auditorium  was  rich  with  the 
adornment  of  flowers.  On  the  wall  of  the  choir  gallery 
above  the  platform,  where  the  organ  is  to  be  hereafter 
placed,  a  huge  seven-pointed  star  was  hung  —  a  star  of 
lilies  resting  on  palms,  with  a  centre  of  white  immortelles, 
upon  which  in  letters  of  red  were  the  words:  "Love- 
Children's  Offering  — 1894." 

In  the  choir  and  the  steps  of  the  platform  were  potted 
palms  and  ferns  and  Easter  lilies.  The  desk  was  wreathed 
with  ferns  and  pure  white  roses  fastened  with  a  broad 
ribbon  bow.  On  its  right  was  a  large  basket  of  white 
carnations  resting  on  a  mat  of  palms,  and  on  its  left  a  vase 
filled  with  beautiful  pink  roses. 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  43 

Two  combined  choirs  —  that  of  First  Church  of  Christ, 
Scientist,  of  New  York,  and  the  choir  of  the  home  church, 
numbering  thirty-five  singers  in  all  —  led  the  singing, 
under  the  direction,  respectively,  of  Mr.  Henry  Lincoln 
Case  and  Miss  Elsie  Lincoln. 

Judge  S.  J.  Hanna,  editor  of  The  Christian  Science 
Journal,  presided  over  the  exercises.  On  the  platform 
with  him  were  Messrs.  Ira  O.  Knapp,  Joseph  Armstrong, 
Stephen  A.  Chase,  and  William  B.  Johnson,  who  compose 
the  Board  of  Directors,  and  Mrs.  Henrietta  Clark  Bemis, 
a  distinguished  elocutionist,  and  a  native  of  Concord,  New 
Hampshire. 

The  utmost  simplicity  marked  the  exercises.  After  an 
organ  voluntary,  the  hymn,  " Laus  Deo,  it  is  done!" 
written  by  Mrs.  Eddy  for  the  corner-stone  laying  last 
spring,  was  sung  by  the  congregation.  Selections  from  the 
Scriptures  and  from  "  Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the 
Scriptures,"  were  read  by  Judge  Hanna  and  Dr.  Eddy. 

A  few  minutes  of  silent  prayer  came  next,  followed  by 
the  recitation  of  the  Lord's  Prayer,  with  its  spiritual  inter- 
pretation as  given  in  the  Christian  Science  textbook. 

The  sermon  prepared  for  the  occasion  by  Mrs.  Eddy, 
which  was  looked  forward  to  as  the  chief  feature  of  the 
dedication,  was  then  read  by  Mrs.  Bemis.  Mrs.  Eddy 
remained  at  her  home  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  during  the  day, 
because,  as  heretofore  stated  in  The  Herald,  it  is  her 
custom  to  discourage  among  her  followers  that  sort  of 
personal  worship  which  religious  teachers  so  often  receive. 

Before  presenting  the  sermon,  Mrs.  Bemis  read  the  fol- 
lowing letter  from  a  former  pastor  of  the  church :  — 


44  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

"To  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

"  Dear  Teacher,  Leader,  Guide :  —  'Laus  Deo,  it  is  done  ! ' 
At  last  you  begin  to  see  the  fruition  of  that  you  have  worked, 
toiled,  prayed  for.  The  *  prayer  in  stone '  is  accomplished. 
Across  two  thousand  miles  of  space,  as  mortal  sense  puts 
it,  I  send  my  hearty  congratulations.  You  are  fully  occu- 
pied, but  I  thought  you  would  willingly  pause  for  an 
instant  to  receive  this  brief  message  of  congratulation. 
Surely  it  marks  an  era  in  the  blessed  onward  work  of 
Christian  Science.  It  is  a  most  auspicious  hour  in  your 
eventful  career.  While  we  all  rejoice,  yet  the  mother  in 
Israel,  alone  of  us  all,  comprehends  its  full  significance. 

"Yours  lovingly, 

"LANSON  P.  NORCROSS." 


[Boston  Sunday  Globe,  January  6,  1895] 
[Extract] 

STATELY  HOME  FOR  BELIEVERS  IN  GOSPEL  HEALING  — 
A  WOMAN  OF  WEALTH  WHO  DEVOTES  ALL  TO  HER 
CHURCH  WORK 

Christian  Science  has  shown  its  power  over  its  students, 
as  they  are  called,  by  building  a  church  by  voluntary  con- 
tributions, the  first  of  its  kind;  a  church  which  will  be 
dedicated  to-day  with  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  ex- 
pended and  free  of  debt. 

The  money  has  flowed  in  from  all  parts  of  the  United 
States  and  Canada  without  any  special  appeal,  and  it  kept 
coming  until  the  custodian  of  funds  cried  "enough"  and 
refused  to  accept  any  further  checks  by  mail  or  otherwise. 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  45 

Men,  women,  and  children  lent  a  helping  hand,  some 
giving  a  mite  and  some  substantial  sums.  Sacrifices  were 
made  in  many  an  instance  which  will  never  be  known  in 
this  world. 

Christian  Scientists  not  only  say  that  they  can  effect 
cures  of  disease  and  erect  churches,  but  add  that  they  can 
get  their  buildings  finished  on  time,  even  when  the  feat 
seems  impossible  to  mortal  senses.  Read  the  following, 
from  a  publication  of  the  new  denomination :  — 

"One  of  the  grandest  and  most  helpful  features  of  this 
glorious  consummation  is  this :  that  one  month  before  the 
close  of  the  year  every  evidence  of  material  sense  declared 
that  the  church's  completion  within  the  year  1894  tran- 
scended human  possibility.  The  predictions  of  workman 
and  onlooker  alike  were  that  it  could  not  be  completed 
before  April  or  May  of  1895.  Much  was  the  ridicule 
heaped  upon  the  hopeful,  trustful  ones,  who  declared  and 
repeatedly  asseverated  to  the  contrary.  This  is  indeed, 
then,  a  scientific  demonstration.  It  has  proved,  in  most 
striking  manner,  the  oft-repeated  declarations  of  our 
textbooks,  that  the  evidence  of  the  mortal  senses  is 
unreliable." 

A  week  ago  Judge  Hanna  withdrew  from  the  pastorate 
of  the  church,  saying  he  gladly  laid  down  his  responsibili- 
ties to  be  succeeded  by  the  grandest  of  ministers  —  the 
Bible  and  "Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scrip- 
tures." This  action,  it  appears,  was  the  result  of  rules 
made  by  Mrs.  Eddy.  The  sermons  hereafter  will  consist 
of  passages  read  from  the  two  books  by  Readers,  who  will 
be  elected  each  year  by  the  congregation. 


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A  story  has  been  abroad  that  Judge  Hanna  was  so  elo- 
quent and  magnetic  that  he  was  attracting  listeners  who 
came  to  hear  him  preach,  rather  than  in  search  of  the 
truth  as  taught.  Consequently  the  new  rules  were  formu- 
lated. But  at  Christian  Science  headquarters  this  is  denied ; 
Mrs.  Eddy  says  the  words  of  the  judge  speak  to  the  point, 
and  that  no  such  inference  is  to  be  drawn  therefrom. 

In  Mrs.  Eddy's  personal  reminiscences,  which  are  pub- 
lished under  the  title  of  "Retrospection  and  Introspection," 
much  is  told  of  herself  in  detail  that  can  only  be  touched 
upon  in  this  brief  sketch. 

Aristocratic  to  the  backbone,  Mrs.  Eddy  takes  delight 
in  going  back  to  the  ancestral  tree  and  in  tracing  those 
branches  which  are  identified  with  good  and  great  names 
both  in  Scotland  and  England. 

Her  family  came  to  this  country  not  long  before  the 
Revolution.  Among  the  many  souvenirs  that  Mrs.  Eddy 
remembers  as  belonging  to  her  grandparents  was  a  heavy 
sword,  encased  in  a  brass  scabbard,  upon  which  had  been 
inscribed  the  name  of  the  kinsman  upon  whom  the  sword 
had  been  bestowed  by  Sir  William  Wallace  of  mighty 
Scottish  fame. 

Mrs.  Eddy  applied  herself,  like  other  girls,  to  her  studies, 
though  perhaps  with  an  unusual  zest,  delighting  in  philos- 
ophy, logic,  and  moral  science,  as  well  as  looking  into  the 
ancient  languages,  Hebrew,  Greek,  and  Latin. 

Her  last  marriage  was  in  the  spring  of  1877,  when,  at 
Lynn,  Mass.,  she  became  the  wife  of  Asa  Gilbert  Eddy. 
He  was  the  first  organizer  of  a  Christian  Science  Sunday 
School,  of  which  he  was  the  superintendent,  and  later  he 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  47 

attracted  the  attention  of  many  clergymen  of  other  de- 
nominations by  his  able  lectures  upon  Scriptural  topics. 
He  died  in  1882. 

Mrs.  Eddy  is  known  to  her  circle  of  pupils  and  admirers 
as  the  editor  and  publisher  of  the  first  official  organ  of  this 
sect.  It  was  called  the  Journal  of  Christian  Science,  and 
has  had  great  circulation  with  the  members  of  this  fast- 
increasing  faith. 

In  recounting  her  experiences  as  the  pioneer  of  Chris- 
tian Science,  she  states  that  she  sought  knowledge  concern- 
ing the  physical  side  in  this  research  through  the  different 
schools  of  allopathy,  homoeopathy,  and  so  forth,  without 
receiving  any  real  satisfaction.  No  ancient  or  modern 
philosophy  gave  her  any  distinct  statement  of  the  Science 
of  Mind-healing.  She  claims  that  no  human  reason  has 
been  equal  to  the  question.  And  she  also  defines  care- 
fully the  difference  in  the  theories  between  faith-cure  and 
Christian  Science,  dwelling  particularly  upon  the  terms 
belief  and  understanding,  which  are  the  key  words  respec- 
tively used  in  the  definitions  of  these  two  healing  arts. 

Besides  her  Boston  home,  Mrs.  Eddy  has  a  delightful 
country  home  one  mile  from  the  State  House  of  New 
Hampshire's  quiet  capital,  an  easy  driving  distance  for 
her  when  she  wishes  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  world.  But 
for  the  most  part  she  lives  very  much  retired,  driving  rather 
into  the  country,  which  is  so  picturesque  all  about  Con- 
cord and  its  surrounding  villages. 

The  big  house,  so  delightfully  remodelled  and  modern- 
ized from  a  primitive  homestead  that  nothing  is  left  ex- 
cepting the  angles  and  pitch  of  the  roof,  is  remarkably 


48  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

well  placed  upon  a  terrace  that  slopes  behind  the  build- 
ings, while  they  themselves  are  in  the  midst  of  green 
stretches  of  lawns,  dotted  with  beds  of  flowering  shrubs, 
with  here  and  there  a  fountain  or  summer-house. 

Mrs.  Eddy  took  the  writer  straight  to  her  beloved  "look- 
out"—  a  broad  piazza  on  the  south  side  of  the  second 
story  of  the  house,  where  she  can  sit  in  her  swinging  chair, 
revelling  in  the  lights  and  shades  of  spring  and  summer 
greenness.  Or,  as  just  then,  in  the  gorgeous  October 
coloring  of  the  whole  landscape  that  lies  below,  across  the 
farm,  which  stretches  on  through  an  intervale  of  beautiful 
meadows  and  pastures  to  the  woods  that  skirt  the  valley 
of  the  little  truant  river,  as  it  wanders  eastward. 

It  pleased  her  to  point  out  her  own  birthplace.  Straight 
as  the  crow  flies,  from  her  piazza,  does  it  lie  on  the  brow 
of  Bow  hill,  and  then  she  paused  and  reminded  the  reporter 
that  Congressman  Baker  from  New  Hampshire,  her  cousin, 
was  born  and  bred  in  that  same  neighborhood.  The 
photograph  of  Hon.  Hoke  Smith,  another  distinguished 
relative,  adorned  the  mantel. 

Then  my  eye  caught  her  family  coat  of  arms  and  the 
diploma  given  her  by  the  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
Revolution. 

The  natural  and  lawful  pride  that  comes  with  a  tincture 
of  blue  and  brave  blood,  is  perhaps  one  of  her  characteris- 
tics, as  is  many  another  well-born  woman's.  She  had  a 
long  list  of  worthy  ancestors  in  Colonial  and  Revolutionary 
days,  and  the  McNeils  and  General  Knox  figure  largely  in 
her  genealogy,  as  well  as  the  hero  who  killed  the  ill-starred 
Paugus. 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  49 

This  big,  sunny  room  which  Mrs.  Eddy  calls  her  den  — 
or  sometimes  "Mother's  room,"  when  speaking  of  her 
many  followers  who  consider  her  their  spiritual  Leader  — 
has  the  air  of  hospitality  that  marks  its  hostess  herself. 
Mrs.  Eddy  has  hung  its  walls  with  reproductions  of  some 
of  Europe's  masterpieces,  a  few  of  which  had  been  the 
gifts  of  her  loving  pupils. 

Looking  down  from  the  windows  upon  the  tree-tops 
on  the  lower  terrace,  the  reporter  exclaimed :  "  You  have 
lived  here  only  four  years,'  and  yet  from  a  barren  waste 
of  most  unpromising  ground  has  come  forth  all  this 
beauty!" 

"Four  years!"  she  ejaculated;  "two  and  a  half,  only 
two  and  a  half  years."  Then,  touching  my  sleeve  and 
pointing,  she  continued :  "Look  at  those  big  elms !  I  had 
them  brought  here  in  warm  weather,  almost  as  big  as  they 
are  now,  and  not  one  died." 

Mrs.  Eddy  talked  earnestly  of  her  friendships.  .  .  . 
She  told  something  of  her  domestic  arrangements,  of  how 
she  had  long  wished  to  get  away  from  her  busy  career  in 
Boston,  and  return  to  her  native  granite  hills,  there  to 
build  a  substantial  home  that  should  do  honor  to  that 
precinct  of  Concord. 

She  chose  the  stubbly  old  farm  on  the  road  from  Con- 
cord, within  one  mile  of  the  "Eton  of  America,"  St.  Paul's 
School.  Once  bought,  the  will  of  the  woman  set  at  work, 
and  to-day  a  strikingly  well-kept  estate  is  the  first  impres- 
sion given  to  the  visitor  as  he  approaches  Pleasant  View. 

She  employs  a  number  of  men  to  keep  the  grounds  and 
farm  in  perfect  order,  and  it  was  pleasing  to  learn  that  this 

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50  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

rich  woman  is  using  her  money  to  promote  the  welfare  of 
industrious  workmen,  in  whom  she  takes  a  vital  interest. 
Mrs.  Eddy  believes  that  "the  laborer  is  worthy  of  his 
hire,"  and,  moreover,  that  he  deserves  to  have  a  home  and 
family  of  his  own.  Indeed,  one  of  her  motives  in  buying 
so  large  an  estate  was  that  she  might  do  something  for  the 
toilers,  and  thus  add  her  influence  toward  the  advancement 
of  better  home  life  and  citizenship. 


[Boston  Transcript,  December  31,  1894] 
[Extract] 

The  growth  of  Christian  Science  is  properly  marked  by 
the  erection  of  a  visible  house  of  worship  in  this  city,  which 
will  be  dedicated  to-morrow.  It  has  cost  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  and  no  additional  sums  outside  of  the 
subscriptions  are  asked  for.  This  particular  phase  of 
religious  belief  has  impressed  itself  upon  a  large  and  in- 
creasing number  of  Christian  people,  who  have  been 
tempted  to  examine  its  principles,  and  doubtless  have  been 
comforted  and  strengthened  by  them.  Any  new  move- 
ment will  awaken  some  sort  of  interest.  There  are  many 
who  have  worn  off  the  novelty  and  are  thoroughly  carried 
away  with  the  requirements,  simple  and  direct  as  they  are, 
of  Christian  Science.  The  opposition  against  it  from  the 
so-called  orthodox  religious  bodies  keeps  up  a  while,  but 
after  a  little  skirmishing,  finally  subsides.  No  one  religious 
body  holds  the  whole  of  truth,  and  whatever  is  likely  to 
show  even  some  one  side  of  it  will  gain  followers  and  live 
down  any  attempted  repression. 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  51 

Christian  Science  does  not  strike  all  as  a  system  of  truth. 
If  it  did,  it  would  be  a  prodigy.  Neither  does  the  Christian 
faith  produce  the  same  impressions  upon  all.  Freedom  to 
believe  or  to  dissent  is  a  great  privilege  in  these  days.  So 
when  a  number  of  conscientious  followers  apply  themselves 
to  a  matter  like  Christian  Science,  they  are  enjoying  that 
liberty  which  is  their  inherent  right  as  human  beings,  and 
though  they  cannot  escape  censure,  yet  they  are  to  be 
numbered  among  the  many  pioneers  who  are  searching 
after  religious  truth.  There  is  really  nothing  settled. 
Every  truth  is  more  or  less  in  a  state  of  agitation.  The 
many  who  have  worked  in  the  mine  of  knowledge  are  glad 
to  welcome  others  who  have  different  methods,  and  with 
them  bring  different  ideas. 

It  is  too  early  to  predict  where  this  movement  will  go, 
and  how  greatly  it  will  affect  the  well-established  methods. 
That  it  has  produced  a  sensation  in  religious  circles,  and 
called  forth  the  implements  of  theological  warfare,  is  very 
well  known.  While  it  has  done  this,  it  may,  on  the  other 
hand,  have  brought  a  benefit.  Ere  this  many  a  new  project 
in  religious  belief  has  stirred  up  feeling,  but  as  time  has 
gone  on,  compromises  have  been  welcomed. 

The  erection  of  this  temple  will  doubtless  help  on  the 
growth  of  its  principles.  Pilgrims  from  everywhere  will  go 
there  in  search  of  truth,  and  some  may  be  satisfied  and  some 
will  not.  Christ  an  Science  cannot  absorb  the  world's 
thought.  It  may  get  the  share  of  attention  it  deserves,  but 
it  can  only  aspire  to  take  its  place  alongside  other  great 
demonstrations  of  religious  belief  which  have  done  some- 
thing good  for  the  sake  of  humanity. 


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Wonders  will  never  cease.  Here  is  a  church  whose 
treasurer  has  to  send  out  word  that  no  sums  except  those 
already  subscribed  can  be  received!  The  Christian 
Scientists  have  a  faith  of  the  mustard-seed  variety. 
What  a  pity  some  of  our  practical  Christian  folk  have  not  a 
faith  approximate  to  that  of  these  "impractical"  Christian 
Scientists. 


[Jackson  Patriot,  Jackson,  Mich.,  January  20,  1895] 
[Extract] 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

The  erection  of  a  massive  temple  in  Boston  by  Christian 
Scientists,  at  a  cost  of  over  two  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
love-offerings  of  the  disciples  of  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  reviver 
of  the  ancient  faith  and  author  of  the  textbook  from  which, 
with  the  New  Testament  at  the  foundation,  believers 
receive  light,  health,  and  strength,  is  evidence  of  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  new  movement.  We  call  it  new.  It  is  not. 
The  name  Christian  Science  alone  is  new.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  Christianity  it  was  taught  and  practised  by  Jesus 
and  his  disciples.  The  Master  was  the  great  healer.  But 
the  wave  of  materialism  and  bigotry  that  swept  over  the 
world  for  fifteen  centuries,  covering  it  with  the  blackness 
of  the  Dark  Ages,  nearly  obliterated  all  vital  belief  in  his 
teachings.  The  Bible  was  a  sealed  book.  Recently  a 
revived  belief  in  what  he  taught  is  manifest,  and  Christian 
Science  is  one  result.  No  new  doctrine  is  proclaimed,  but 


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there  is  the  fresh  development  of  a  Principle  that  was  put 
into  practice  by  the  Founder  of  Christianity  nineteen  hun- 
dred years  ago,  though  practised  in  other  countries  at  an 
earlier  date.  "The  thing  that  hath  been,  it  is  that  which 
shall  be;  and  that  which  is  done  is  that  which  shall  be 
done :  and  there  is  no  new  thing  under  the  sun." 

The  condition  which  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  on  various 
occasions  during  the  three  years  of  his  ministry  on  earth, 
declared  to  be  essential,  in  the  mind  of  both  healer  and 
patient,  is  contained  in  the  one  word  —  faith.  Can  drugs 
suddenly  cure  leprosy  ?  When  the  ten  lepers  were  cleansed 
and  one  returned  to  give  thanks  in  Oriental  phrase,  Jesus 
said  to  him :  "Arise,  go  thy  way :  thy  faith  hath  made  thee 
whole."  That  was  Christian  Science.  In  his  "Law  of 
Psychic  Phenomena"  Hudson  says:  "That  word,  more 
than  any  other,  expresses  the  whole  law  of  human  felicity 
and  power  in  this  world,  and  of  salvation  in  the  world  to 
come.  It  is  that  attribute  of  mind  which  elevates  man 
above  the  level  of  the  brute,  and  gives  dominion  over  the 
physical  world.  It  is  the  essential  element  of  success  in 
every  field  of  human  endeavor.  It  constitutes  the  power 
of  the  human  soul.  When  Jesus  of  Nazareth  proclaimed 
its  potency  from  the  hilltops  of  Palestine,  he  gave  to  man- 
kind the  key  to  health  and  heaven,  and  earned  the  title  of 
"Saviour  of  the  World."  Whittier,  grandest  of  mystic 
poets,  saw  the  truth:  — 


That  healing  gift  he  lends  to  them 

Who  use  it  in  his  name; 
The  power  that  filled  his  garment's  hem 

Is  evermore  the  same. 


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Again,  in  a  poem  entitled  "The  Master,"  he  wrote:  — 

The  healing  of  his  seamless  dress 

Is  by  our  beds  of  pain; 
We  touch  him  in  life's  throng  and  press, 

And  we  are  whole  again.1 

That  Jesus  operated  in  perfect  harmony  with  natural 
law,  not  in  defiance,  suppression,  or  violation  of  it,  we  can- 
not doubt.  The  perfectly  natural  is  the  perfectly  spiritual. 
Jesus  enunciated  and  exemplified  the  Principle;  and, 
obviously,  the  conditions  requisite  in  psychic  healing 
to-day  are  the  same  as  were  necessary  in  apostolic  times. 
We  accept  the  statement  of  Hudson:  "There  was  no  law 
of  nature  violated  or  transcended.  On  the  contrary,  the 
whole  transaction  was  in  perfect  obedience  to  the  laws  of 
nature.  He  understood  the  law  perfectly,  as  no  one  before 
him  understood  it;  and  in  the  plenitude  of  his  power  he 
applied  it  where  the  greatest  good  could  be  accomplished." 
A  careful  reading  of  the  accounts  of  his  healings,  in  the 
light  of  modern  science,  shows  that  he  observed,  in  his 
practice  of  mental  therapeutics,  the  conditions  of  environ- 
ment and  harmonious  influence  that  are  essential  to  success. 
In  the  case  of  Jairus'  daughter  they  are  fully  set  forth. 
He  kept  the  unbelievers  away,  "put  them  all  out,"  and 
permitting  only  the  father  and  mother,  with  his  closest 
friends  and  followers,  Peter,  James,  and  John,  in  the 
chamber  with  him,  and  having  thus  the  most  perfect 
obtainable  environment,  he  raised  the  daughter  to  life. 

1  NOTE:  —  About  1868,  the  author  of  Science  and  Health  healed 
Mr.  Whittier  with  one  visit,  at  his  home  in  Amesbury,  of  incipient 
pulmonary  consumption.  —  M.  3.  EDDY. 


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f'Not  in  blind  caprice  of  will, 
Not  in  cunning  sleight  of  skill, 
Not  for  show  of  power,  was  wrought 
Nature's  marvel  in  thy  thought." 

In  a  previous  article  we  have  referred  to  cyclic  changes 
that  came  during  the  last  quarter  of  preceding  centuries. 
Of  our  remarkable  nineteenth  century  not  the  least  event- 
ful circumstance  is  the  advent  of  Christian  Science. 
That  it  should  be  the  work  of  a  woman  is  the  natural  out- 
qome  of  a  period  notable  for  her  emancipation  from  many 
of  the  thraldoms,  prejudices,  and  oppressions  of  the  past. 
We  do  not,  therefore,  regard  it  as  a  mere  coincidence  that 
the  first  edition  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  Science  and  Health  should 
have  been  published  in  1875.  Since  then  she  has  revised 
it  many  times,  and  the  ninety-first  edition  is  announced. 
Her  discovery  was  first  called,  "The  Science  of  Divine 
Metaphysical  Healing."  Afterward  she  selected  the  name 
Christian  Science.  It  is  based  upon  what  is  held  to  be 
scientific  certainty,  namely,  —  that  all  causation  is  of 
Mind,  every  effect  has  its  origin  in  desire  and  thought. 
The  theology  —  if  we  may  use  the  word  —  of  Christian 
Science  is  contained  in  the  volume  entitled  "Science  and 
Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures." 

The  present  Boston  congregation  was  organized 
April  19,  1879,  and  has  now  over  four  thousand  members. 
It  is  regarded  as  the  parent  organization,  all  others  being 
branches,  though  each  is  entirely  independent  in  the 
management  of  its  own  affairs.  Truth  is  the  sole  recognized 
authority.  Of  actual  members  of  different  congregations 
there  are  between  one  hundred  thousand  and  two  hundred 


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thousand.  One  or  more  organized  societies  have  sprung 
up  in  New  York,  Chicago,  Buffalo,  Cleveland,  Cincin- 
nati, Philadelphia,  Detroit,  Toledo,  Milwaukee,  Madison, 
Scranton,  Peoria,  Atlanta,  Toronto,  and  nearly  every  other 
centre  of  population,  besides  a  large  and  growing  number 
of  receivers  of  the  faith  among  the  members  of  all  the 
churches  and  non-church-going  people.  In  some  churches 
a  majority  of  the  members  are  Christian  Scientists,  and,  as 
a  rule,  are  the  most  intelligent. 

Space  does  not  admit  of  an  elaborate  presentation  on  the 
occasion  of  the  erection  of  the  temple,  in  Boston,  the 
dedication  taking  place  on  the  6th  of  January,  of  one  of 
the  most  remarkable,  helpful,  and  powerful  movements 
of  the  last  quarter  of  the  century.  Christian  Science 
has  brought  hope  and  comfort  to  many  weary  souls.  It 
makes  people  better  and  happier.  Welding  Christianity 
and  Science,  hitherto  divorced  because  dogma  and  truth 
could  not  unite,  was  a  happy  inspiration. 

f'And  still  we  love  the  evil  cause, 

And  of  the  just  effect  complain; 
We  tread  upon  life's  broken  laws, 
And  mourn  our  self-inflicted  pain." 


[The  Outlook,  New  York,  January  19,  1895] 
A  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  CHURCH 

A  great  Christian  Science  church  was  dedicated  in  Bos- 
ton on  Sunday,  the  6th  inst.  It  is  located  at  Norway  and 
Falmouth  Streets,  and  is  intended  to  be  a  testimonial  to 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  57 

the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  the 
Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  The  building  is  fire-proof,  and 
cost  over  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  It  is  entirely 
paid  for,  and  contributions  for  its  erection  came  from  every 
State  in  the  Union,  and  from  many  lands.  The  auditorium 
is  said  to  seat  between  fourteen  and  fifteen  hundred,  and 
was  thronged  at  the  four  services  on  the  day  of  dedication. 
The  sermon,  prepared  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  was  read  by  Mrs. 
Bemis.  It  rehearsed  the  significance  of  the  building,  and 
reenunciated  the  truths  which  will  find  emphasis  there. 
From  the  description  we  judge  that  it  is  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  buildings  in  Boston,  and,  indeed,  in  all  New 
England.  Whatever  may  be  thought  of  the  peculiar  tenets 
of  the  Christian  Scientists,  and  whatever  difference  of 
opinion  there  may  be  concerning  the  organization  of  such 
a  church,  there  can  be  no  question  but  that  the  adherents 
of  this  church  have  proved  their  faith  by  their  works. 


[American  Art  Journal,  New  York,  January  26,  1895] 

"OuR  PRAYER  IN  STONE" 

Such  is  the  excellent  name  given  to  a  new  Boston  church. 
Few  people  outside  its  own  circles  realize  how  extensive  is 
the  belief  in  Christian  Science.  There  are  several  sects  of 
mental  healers,  but  this  new  edifice  on  Back  Bay,  just  off 
Huntington  Avenue,  not  far  from  the  big  Mechanics 
Building  and  the  proposed  site  of  the  new  Music  Hall, 
belongs  to  the  followers  of  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Glover  Eddy, 
a  lady  born  of  an  old  New  Hampshire  family,  who,  after 


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many  vicissitudes,  found  herself  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  healed  by 
the  power  of  divine  Mind,  and  thereupon  devoted  herself 
to  imparting  this  faith  to  her  fellow-beings.  Coming  to 
Boston  about  1880,  she  began  teaching,  gathered  an 
association  of  students,  and  organized  a  church.  For 
several  years  past  she  has  lived  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  near 
her  birthplace,  owning  a  beautiful  estate  called  Pleasant 
View;  but  thousands  of  believers  throughout  this  country 
have  joined  The  Mother  Church  in  Boston,  and  have  now 
erected  this  edifice  at  a  cost  of  over  two  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  every  bill  being  paid. 

Its  appearance  is  shown  in  the  pictures  we  are  permitted 
to  publish.  In  the  belfry  is  a  set  of  tubular  chimes.  Inside 
is  a  basement  room,  capable  of  division  into  seven  excellent 
class-rooms,  by  the  use  of  movable  partitions.  The  main 
auditorium  has  wide  galleries,  and  will  seat  over  a  thousand 
in  its  exceedingly  comfortable  pews.  Scarcely  any  wood- 
work is  to  be  found.  The  floors  are  all  mosaic,  the  steps 
marble,  and  the  walls  stone.  It  is  rather  dark,  often  too 
much  so  for  comfortable  reading,  as  all  the  windows  are  of 
colored  glass,  with  pictures  symbolic  of  the  tenets  of  the 
organization.  In  the  ceiling  is  a  beautiful  sunburst  window. 
Adjoining  the  chancel  is  a  pastor's  study;  but  for  an 
indefinite  time  their  prime  instructor  has  ordained  that  the 
only  pastor  shall  be  the  Bible,  with  her  book,  called 
"Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures."  In  the 
tower  is  a  room  devoted  to  her,  and  called  "Mother's 
Room,"  furnished  with  all  conveniences  for  living,  should 
she  wish  to  make  it  a  home  by  day  or  night.  Therein  is 
a  portrait  of  her  in  stained  glass;  and  an  electric  light, 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  59 

behind  an  antique  lamp,  kept  perpetually  burning  in  her 
honor;  though  she  has  not  yet  visited  her  temple,  which 
was  dedicated  on  New  Year's  Sunday  in  a  somewhat  novel 
way. 

There  was  no  special  sentence  or  prayer  of  consecration, 
but  continuous  services  were  held  from  nine  to  four  o'clock, 
every  hour  and  a  half,  so  long  as  there  were  attendants; 
and  some  people  heard  these  exercises  four  times  repeated. 
The  printed  program  was  for  some  reason  not  followed, 
certain  hymns  and  psalms  being  omitted.  There  was  sing- 
ing by  a  choir  and  congregation.  The  Pater  Nosier  was 
repeated  in  the  way  peculiar  to  Christian  Scientists,  the 
congregation  repeating  one  sentence  and  the  leader  re- 
sponding with  its  parallel  interpretation  by  Mrs.  Eddy. 
Antiphonal  paragraphs  were  read  from  the  book  of 
Revelation  and  her  work  respectively.  The  sermon, 
prepared  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  was  well  adapted  for  its  purpose, 
and  read  by  a  professional  elocutionist,  not  an  adherent  of 
the  order,  Mrs.  Henrietta  Clark  Bemis,  in  a  clear  emphatic 
style.  The  solo  singer,  however,  was  a  Scientist,  Miss  Elsie 
Lincoln;  and  on  the  platform  sat  Joseph  Armstrong, 
formerly  of  Kansas,  and  now  the  business  manager  of  the 
Publishing  Society,  with  the  other  members  of  the  Christian 
Science  Board  of  Directors  —  Ira  C.  Knapp,  Edward  P. 
Bates,  Stephen  A.  Chase,  —  gentlemen  officially  connected 
with  the  movement.  The  children  of  believing  families 
collected  the  money  for  the  Mother's  Room,  and  seats  were 
especially  set  apart  for  them  at  the  second  dedicatory 
service.  Before  one  service  was  over  and  the  auditors  left 
by  the  rear  doors,  the  front  vestibule  and  street  (despite 


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the  snowstorm)  were  crowded  with  others,  waiting  for 
admission. 

On  the  next  Sunday  the  new  order  of  service  went 
into  operation.  There  was  no  address  of  any  sort,  no 
notices,  no  explanation  of  Bible  or  their  textbook.  Judge 
Hanna,  who  was  a  Colorado  lawyer  before  coming  into 
this  work,  presided,  reading  in  clear,  manly,  and  intelli- 
gent tones,  the  Quarterly  Bible  Lesson,  which  happened 
that  day  to  be  on  Jesus'  miracle  of  loaves  and  fishes. 
Each  paragraph  he  supplemented  first  with  illustrative 
Scripture  parallels,  as  set  down  for  him,  and  then  by  pas- 
sages selected  for  him  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  book.  The  place 
was  again  crowded,  many  having  remained  over  a  week 
from  among  the  thousands  of  adherents  who  had  come 
to  Boston  for  this  auspicious  occasion  from  all  parts  of 
the  country.  The  organ,  made  by  Farrand  &  Votey  in 
Detroit,  at  a  cost  of  eleven  thousand  dollars,  is  the  gift  of 
a  wealthy  Universalist  gentleman,  but  was  not  ready  for 
the  opening.  It  is  to  fill  the  recess  behind  the  spacious 
platform,  and  is  described  as  containing  pneumatic  wind- 
chests  throughout,  and  having  an  ^Eolian  attachment. 
It  is  of  three-manual  compass,  C.  C.  C.  to  C.  4,  61  notes; 
and  pedal  compass,  C.  C.  C.  to  F.  30.  The  great  organ 
has  double  open  diapason  (stopped  bass),  open  diapason, 
dulciana,  viola  di  gambi,  doppel  flute,  hohl  flute,  octave, 
octave  quint,  superoctave,  and  trumpet,  —  65  pipes  each. 
The  swell  organ  has  bourdon,  open  diapason,  salicional, 
seoline,  stopped  diapason,  gemshorn,  flute  harmonique, 
flageolet,  cornet  —  3  ranks,  183,  —  cornopean,  oboe,  vox 
humana  —  61  pipes  each.  The  choir  organ,  enclosed  in 


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separate  swell-box,  has  geigen  principal,  dolce,  concert 
flute,  quintadena,  fugara,  flute  d'amour,  piccolo  harmo- 
nique,  clarinet,  —  61  pipes  each.  The  pedal  organ  has 
open  diapason,  bourden,  lieblich  gedeckt  (from  stop  10), 
violoncello- wood,  —  30  pipes  each.  Couplers :  swell  to 
great;  choir  to  great;  swell  to  choir;  swell  to  great  oc- 
taves, swell  to  great  sub-octaves;  choir  to  great  sub- 
octaves;  swell  octaves;  swell  to  pedal;  great  to  pedal; 
choir  to  pedal.  Mechanical  accessories :  swell  tremulant, 
choir  tremulant,  bellows  signal;  wind  indicator.  Pedal 
movements:  three  affecting  great  and  pedal  stops,  three 
affecting  swell  and  pedal  stops;  great  to  pedal  reversing 
pedal;  crescendo  and  full  organ  pedal;  balanced  great 
and  choir  pedal;  balanced  swell  pedal. 

Beautiful  suggestions  greet  you  in  every  part  of  this 
unique  church,  which  is  practical  as  well  as  poetic,  and 
justifies  the  name  given  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  which  stands  at 
the  head  of  this  sketch.  J.  H.  W. 


[Boston  Journal,  January  7,  1895] 

CHIMES  RANG  SWEETLY 

Much  admiration  was  expressed  by  all  those  fortunate 
enough  to  listen  to  the  first  peal  of  the  chimes  in  the  tower 
of  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  corner  of  Fal- 
mouth  and  Norway  Streets,  dedicated  yesterday.  The 
sweet,  musical  tones  attracted  quite  a  throng  of  people, 
who  listened  with  delight. 

The  chimes  were  made  by  the  United  States  Tubular 


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Bell  Company,  of  Methuen,  Mass.,  and  are  something 
of  a  novelty  in  this  country,  though  for  some  time  well 
and  favorably  known  in  the  Old  Country,  especially  in 
England. 

They  are  a  substitution  of  tubes  of  drawn  brass  for  the 
heavy  cast  bells  of  old-fashioned  chimes.  They  have  the 
advantage  of  great  economy  of  space,  as  well  as  of  cost,  a 
chime  of  fifteen  bells  occupying  a  space  not  more  than 
five  by  eight  feet. 

Where  the  old-fashioned  chimes  required  a  strong  man 
to  ring  them,  these  can  be  rung  from  an  electric  keyboard, 
and  even  when  rung  by  hand  require  but  little  muscular 
power  to  manipulate  them  and  call  forth  all  the  purity 
and  sweetness  of  their  tones.  The  quality  of  tone  is  some- 
thing superb,  being  rich  and  mellow.  The  tubes  are  care- 
fully tuned,  so  that  the  harmony  is  perfect.  They  have 
all  the  beauties  of  a  great  cathedral  chime,  with  infinitely 
less  expense. 

There  is  practically  no  limit  to  the  uses  to  which  these 
bells  may  be  put.  They  can  be  called  into  requisition  in 
theatres,  concert  halls,  and  public  buildings,  as  they  range 
in  all  sizes,  from  those  described  down  to  little  sets  of 
silver  bells  that  might  be  placed  on  a  small  centre  table. 


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[The  Republic,  Washington,  D.  C.,  February  2,  1895] 

[Extract] 
CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY  THE  "MOTHER"  OF  THE  IDEA  —  SHE  HAS  AN 
IMMENSE  FOLLOWING  THROUGHOUT  THE  UNITED  STATES,  AND 
A  CHURCH  COSTING  $250,000  WAS  RECENTLY  BUILT  IN  HER 
HONOR  AT  BOSTON 

"My  faith  has  the  strength  to  nourish  trees  as  well  as 
souls,"  was  the  remark  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the 
"Mother"  of  Christian  Science,  made  recently  as  she 
pointed  to  a  number  of  large  elms  that  shade  her  delight- 
ful country  home  in  Concord,  N.  H.  "  I  had  them  brought 
here  in  warm  weather,  almost  as  big  as  they  are  now,  and 
not  one  died."  This  is  a  remarkable  statement,  but  it  is 
made  by  a  remarkable  woman,  who  has  originated  a  new 
phase  of  religious  belief,  and  who  numbers  over  one  hun- 
dred thousand  intelligent  people  among  her  devoted 
followers. 

The  great  hold  she  has  upon  this  army  was  demon- 
strated in  a  very  tangible  and  material  manner  recently, 
when  "The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,"  erected  at 
a  cost  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  was 
dedicated  in  Boston.  This  handsome  edifice  was  paid 
for  before  it  was  begun,  by  the  voluntary  contributions  of 
Christian  Scientists  all  over  the  country,  and  a  tablet  im- 
bedded in  its  wall  declares  that  it  was  built  as  "a  testi- 
monial to  our  beloved  teacher,  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 


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Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  author  of 
its  textbook,  'Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scrip- 
tures/ president  of  the  Massachusetts  Metaphysical  Col- 
lege, and  the  first  pastor  of  this  denomination." 

There  is  usually  considerable  difficulty  in  securing  suffi- 
cient funds  for  the  building  of  a  new  church,  but  such  was 
not  the  experience  of  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  Money 
came  freely  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States.  Men, 
women,  and  children  contributed,  some  giving  a  pittance, 
others  donating  large  sums.  When  the  necessary  amount 
was  raised,  the  custodian  of  the  funds  was  compelled  to 
refuse  further  contributions,  in  order  to  stop  the  continued 
inflow  of  money  from  enthusiastic  Christian  Scientists. 

Mrs.  Eddy  says  she  discovered  Christian  Science  in 
1866.  She  studied  the  Scriptures  and  the  sciences,  she 
declares,  in  a  search  for  the  great  curative  Principle.  She 
investigated  allopathy,  homoeopathy,  and  electricity,  with- 
out finding  a  clew;  and  modern  philosophy  gave  her  no 
distinct  statement  of  the  Science  of  Mind-healing.  After 
careful  study  she  became  convinced  that  the  curative 
Principle  was  the  Deity. 


[New  York  Tribune,  February  7,  1895] 
[Extract] 

Boston  has  just  dedicated  the  first  church  of  the  Chris- 
tian Scientists,  in  commemoration  of  the  Founder  of  that 
sect,  the  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  drawing  together  six 
thousand  people  to  participate  in  the  ceremonies,  showing 


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that  belief  in  that  curious  creed  is  not  confined  to  its 
original  apostles  and  promulgators,  but  that  it  has  pene- 
trated what  is  called  the  New  England  mind  to  an  un- 
looked-for extent.  In  inviting  the  Eastern  churches  and 
the  Anglican  fold  to  unity  with  Rome,  the  Holy  Father 
should  not  overlook  the  Boston  sect  of  Christian  Scientists, 
which  is  rather  small  and  new,  to  be  sure,  but  is  undoubt- 
edly an  interesting  faith  and  may  have  a  future  before  it, 
whatever  attitude  Rome  may  assume  toward  it. 


[Journal,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  January  10,  1895] 
[Extract] 

GROWTH  OF  A  FAITH 

Attention  is  directed  to  the  progress  which  has  been 
made  by  what  is  called  Christian  Science  by  the  dedication 
at  Boston  of  "The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist." 
It  is  a  most  beautiful  structure  of  gray  granite,  and  its 
builders  call  it  their  "prayer  in  stone,"  which  suggests 
to  recollection  the  story  of  the  cathedral  of  Amiens,  whose 
architectural  construction  and  arrangement  of  statuary 
and  paintings  made  it  to  be  called  the  Bible  of  that  city. 
The  Frankish  church  was  reared  upon  the  spot  where,  in 
pagan  times,  one  bitter  winter  day,  a  Roman  soldier  parted 
his  mantle  with  his  sword  and  gave  half  of  the  garment  to 
a  naked  beggar;  and  so  was  memorialized  in  art  and 
stone  what  was  called  the  divine  spirit  of  giving,  whose  un- 
believing exemplar  afterward  became  a  saint.  The  Boston 
church  similarly  expresses  the  faith  of  those  who  believe 

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in  what  they  term  the  divine  art  of  healing,  which,  to  their 
minds,  exists  as  much  to-day  as  it  did  when  Christ  healed 
the  sick. 

The  first  church  organization  of  this  faith  was  founded 
fifteen  years  ago  with  a  membership  of  only  twenty-six, 
and  since  then  the  number  of  believers  has  grown  with 
remarkable  rapidity,  until  now  there  are  societies  in  every 
part  of  the  country.  This  growth,  it  is  said,  proceeds 
more  from  the  graveyards  than  from  conversions  from 
other  churches,  for  most  of  those  who  embrace  the  faith 
claim  to  have  been  rescued  from  death  miraculously  under 
the  injunction  to  "heal  the  sick,  cleanse  the  lepers,  raise 
the  dead,  cast  out  demons."  They  hold  with  strict  fidelity 
to  what  they  conceive  to  be  the  literal  teachings  of  the 
Bible  as  expressed  in  its  poetical  and  highly  figurative 
language. 

Altogether  the  belief  and  service  are  well  suited  to 
satisfy  a  taste  for  the  mystical  which,  along  many  lines,  has 
shown  an  uncommon  development  in  this  country  during 
the  last  decade,  and  which  is  largely  Oriental  in  its  choice. 
Such  a  rapid  departure  from  long  respected  views  as  is 
marked  by  the  dedication  of  this  church,  and  others  of 
kindred  meaning,  may  reasonably  excite  wonder  as  to 
how  radical  is  to  be  this  encroachment  upon  prevailing 
faiths,  and  whether  some  of  the  pre-Christian  ideas  of 
the  Asiatics  are  eventually  to  supplant  those  in  company 
with  which  our  civilization  has  developed. 


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[Montreal  Daily  Herald,  Saturday,  February  2,  1895] 
[Extract] 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

SKETCH  OF  ITS  ORIGIN  AND  GROWTH  —  THE  MONTREAL  BRANCH 

"If  you  would  found  a  new  faith,  go  to  Boston,"  has 
been  said  by  a  great  American  writer.  This  is  no  idle 
word,  but  a  fact  borne  out  by  circumstances.  Boston  can 
fairly  claim  to  be  the  hub  of  the  logical  universe,  and  an 
accurate  census  of  the  religious  faiths  which  are  to  be 
found  there  to-day  would  probably  show  a  greater  number 
of  them  than  even  Max  O'RelPs  famous  enumeration  of 
John  Bull's  creeds. 

Christian  Science,  or  the  Principle  of  divine  healing, 
is  one  of  those  movements  which  seek  to  give  expression 
to  a  higher  spirituality.  Founded  twenty-five  years  ago, 
it  was  still  practically  unknown  a  decade  since,  but  to-day 
it  numbers  over  a  quarter  of  a  million  of  believers,  the 
majority  of  whom  are  in  the  United  States,  and  is  rapidly 
growing.  In  Canada,  also,  there  is  a  large  number  of 
members.  .Toronto  and  Montreal  have  strong  churches, 
comparatively,  while  in  many  towns  and  villages  single 
believers  or  little  knots  of  them  are  to  be  found. 

It  was  exactly  one  hundred  years  from  the  date  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  when  on  July  4,  1876,  the 
first  Christian  Scientist  Association  was  organized  by 
seven  persons,  of  whom  the  foremost  was  Mrs.  Eddy. 
The  church  was  founded  in  April,  1879,  with  twenty-six 
members,  and  a  charter  was  obtained  two  months  later. 


68  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

Mrs.  Eddy  assumed  the  pastorship  of  the  church  during 
its  early  years,  and  in  1881  was  ordained,  being  now  known 
as  the  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

The  Massachusetts  Metaphysical  College  was  founded 
by  Mrs.  Eddy  in  1881,  and  here  she  taught  the  principles 
of  the  faith  for  nine  years.  Students  came  to  it  in  hun- 
dreds from  all  parts  of  the  world,  and  many  are  now  pastors 
or  in  practice.  The  college  was  closed  in  1889,  as  Mrs. 
Eddy  felt  it  necessary  for  the  interests  of  her  religious  work 
to  retire  from  active  contact  with  the  world.  She  now 
lives  in  a  beautiful  country  residence  in  her  native  State. 


[The  American,  Baltimore,  Md.,  January  14, 1895] 
[Extract] 

MRS.  EDDY'S  DISCIPLES 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  a  Christian  Science  con- 
gregation was  organized  in  this  city  about  a  year  ago.  It 
now  holds  regular  services  in  the  parlor  of  the  residence 
of  the  pastor,  at  1414  Linden  Avenue.  The  dedication  in 
Boston  last  Sunday  of  the  Christian  Science  church,  called 
The  Mother  Church,  which  cost  over  two  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  adds  interest  to  the  Baltimore  organization. 
There  are  many  other  church  edifices  in  the  United  States 
owned  by  Christian  Scientists.  Christian  Science  was 
founded  by  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  The  Baltimore  con- 
gregation was  organized  at  a  meeting  held  at  the  present 
location  on  February  27,  1894. 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  69 

Dr.  Hammond,  the  pastor,  came  to  Baltimore  about 
three  years  ago  to  organize  this  movement.  Miss  Cross 
came  from  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  about  eighteen  months  ago. 
Both  were  under  the  instruction  of  Mrs.  Mary  Baker 
Eddy,  the  Founder  of  the  movement. 

Dr.  Hammond  says  he  was  converted  to  Christian  Sci- 
ence by  being  cured  by  Mrs.  Eddy  of  a  physical  ailment 
some  twelve  years  ago,  after  several  doctors  had  pronounced 
his  case  incurable.  He  says  they  use  no  medicines,  but 
rely  on  Mind  for  cure,  believing  that  disease  comes  from 
evil  and  sick-producing  thoughts,  and  that,  if  they  can  so 
fill  the  mind  with  good  thoughts  as  to  leave  no  room  there 
for  the  bad,  they  can  work  a  cure.  He  distinguishes  Chris- 
tian Science  from  the  faith-cure,  and  added :  "This  Chris- 
tian Science  really  is  a  return  to  the  ideas  of  primitive 
Christianity.  It  would  take  a  small  book  to  explain  fully 
all  about  it,  but  I  may  say  that  the  fundamental  idea  is  that 
God  is  Mind,  and  we  interpret  the  Scriptures  wholly  from 
the  spiritual  or  metaphysical  standpoint.  We  find  in  this 
view  of  the  Bible  the  power  fully  developed  to  heal  the 
sick.  It  is  not  faith-cure,  but  it  is  an  acknowledgment  of 
certain  Christian  and  scientific  laws,  and  to  work  a  cure  the 
practitioner  must  understand  these  laws  aright.  The 
patient  may  gain  a  better  understanding  than  the  Church 
has  had  in  the  past.  All  churches  have  prayed  for  the  cure 
of  disease,  but  they  have  not  done  so  in  an  intelligent  man- 
ner, understanding  and  demonstrating  the  Christ-healing." 


70  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

[The  Reporter,  Lebanon,  Ind.,  January  18,  1895] 
[Extract] 

DISCOVERED  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

REMARKABLE  CAREER  OF  REV.   MARY  BAKER  EDDY,  WHO  HAS 
OVER  ONE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND  FOLLOWERS 

Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  Discoverer  and  Founder  of 
Christian  Science,  author  of  its  textbook,  "Science  and 
Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  president  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Metaphysical  College,  and  first  pastor  of  the 
Christian  Science  denomination,  is  without  doubt  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  women  in  America.  She  has  within  a 
few  years  founded  a  sect  that  has  over  one  hundred  thou- 
sand converts,  and  very  recently  saw  completed  in  Boston, 
as  a  testimonial  to  her  labors,  a  handsome  fire-proof  church 
that  cost  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  was 
paid  for  by  Christian  Scientists  all  over  the  country. 

Mrs.  Eddy  asserts  that  in  1866  she  became  certain  that 
"all  causation  was  Mind,  and  every  effect  a  mental  phe- 
nomenon." Taking  her  text  from  the  Bible,  she  endeav- 
ored in  vain  to  find  the  great  curative  Principle  —  the  Deity 
—  in  philosophy  and  schools  of  medicine,  and  she  con- 
cluded that  the  way  of  salvation  demonstrated  by  Jesus 
was  the  power  of  Truth  over  all  error,  sin,  sickness,  and 
death.  Thus  originated  the  divine  or  spiritual  Science  of 
Mind-healing,  which  she  termed  Christian  Science.  She 
has  a  palatial  home  in  Boston  and  a  country-seat  in 
Concord,  N.  H.  The  Christian  Science  Church  has  a 


CLIPPINGS  FROM  NEWSPAPERS  71 

membership  of  four  thousand,  and  eight  hundred  of  the 
members  are  Bostonians. 


[N.  Y.  Commercial  Advertiser,  January  9,  1895] 

The  idea  that  Christian  Science  has  declined  in  popu- 
larity is  not  borne  out  by  the  voluntary  contribution  of  a 
quarter  of  a  million  dollars  for  a  memorial  church  for  Mrs. 
Eddy,  the  inventor  of  this  cure.  The  money  comes  from 
Christian  Science  believers  exclusively. 


{The  Post,  Syracuse,  New  York,  February  1,  1895] 

Do  NOT  BELIEVE  SHE  WAS  DEIFIED 

CHRISTIAN   SCIENTISTS   OF   SYRACUSE   SURPRISED   AT  THE    NEWS 
ABOUT  MRS.  MARY  BAKER  EDDY,  FOUNDER  OF  THE  FAITH 

Christian  Scientists  in  this  city,  and  in  fact  all  over  the 
country,  have  been  startled  and  greatly  discomfited  over 
the  announcements  in  New  York  papers  that  Mrs.  Mary 
Baker  G.  Eddy,  the  acknowledged  Christian  Science 
Leader,  has  been  exalted  by  various  dignitaries  of  the 
faith.  .  .  . 

It  is  well  known  that  Mrs.  Eddy  has  resigned  herself 
completely  to  the  study  and  foundation  of  the  faith  to  which 
many  thousands  throughout  the  United  States  are  now  so 
entirely  devoted.  By  her  followers  and  cobelievers  she  is 
unquestionably  looked  upon  as  having  a  divine  mission  to 


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fulfil,  and  as  though  inspired  in  her  great  task  by  super- 
natural power. 

For  the  purpose  of  learning  the  feeling  of  Scientists  in  this 
city  toward  the  reported  deification  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  a  Post 
reporter  called  upon  a  few  of  the  leading  members  of  the 
faith  yesterday  and  had  a  number  of  very  interesting  con- 
versations upon  the  subject. 

Mrs.  D.  W.  Copeland  of  University  Avenue  was  one  of 
the  first  to  be  seen.  Mrs.  Copeland  is  a  very  pleasant  and 
agreeable  lady,  ready  to  converse,  and  evidently  very  much 
absorbed  in  the  work  to  which  she  has  given  so  much  of 
her  attention.  Mrs.  Copeland  claims  to  have  been  healed 
a  number  of  years  ago  by  Christian  Scientists,  after  she 
had  practically  been  given  up  by  a  number  of  well-known 
physicians. 

"And  for  the  past  eleven  years,"  said  Mrs.  Copeland, 
"  I  have  not  taken  any  medicine  or  drugs  of  any  kind,  and 
yet  have  been  perfectly  well." 

In  regard  to  Mrs.  Eddy,  Mrs.  Copeland  said  that  she 
was  the  Founder  of  the  faith,  but  that  she  had  never 
claimed,  nor  did  she  believe  that  Mrs.  Lathrop  had,  that 
Mrs.  Eddy  had  any  power  other  than  that  which  came 
from  God  and  through  faith  in  Him  and  His  teachings. 

"  The  power  of  Christ  has  been  dormant  in  mankind  for 
ages,"  added  the  speaker,  "and  it  was  Mrs.  Eddy's  mission 
to  revive  it.  In  our  labors  we  take  Christ  as  an  example, 
going  about  doing  good  and  healing  the  sick.  Christ  has 
told  us  to  do  his  work,  naming  as  one  great  essential  that 
we  have  faith  in  him. 

"Did  you  ever  hear  of  Jesus'  taking  medicine  himself,  or 


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giving  it  to  others?"  inquired  the  speaker.  "Then  why 
should  we  worry  ourselves  about  sickness  and  disease? 
If  we  become  sick,  God  will  care  for  us,  and  will  send  to 
us  those  who  have  faith,  who  believe  in  His  unlimited  and 
divine  power.  Mrs.  Eddy  was  strictly  an  ardent  follower 
after  God.  She  had  faith  in  Him,  and  she  cured  herself  of 
a  deathly  disease  through  the  mediation  of  her  God.  Then 
she  secluded  herself  from  the  world  for  three  years  and 
studied  and  meditated  over  His  divine  Word.  She  delved 
deep  into  the  Biblical  passages,  and  at  the  end  of  the  period 
came  from  her  seclusion  one  of  the  greatest  Biblical  schol- 
ars of  the  age.  Her  mission  was  then  the  mission  of  a 
Christian,  to  do  good  and  heal  the  sick,  and  this  duty  she 
faithfully  performed.  She  of  herself  had  no  power.  But 
God  has  fulfilled  His  promises  to  her  and  to  the  world. 
If  you  have  faith,  you  can  move  mountains." 

Mrs.  Henrietta  N.  Cole  is  also  a  very  prominent  member 
of  the  church.  When  seen  yesterday  she  emphasized  her- 
self as  being  of  the  same  theory  as  Mrs.  Copeland.  Mrs. 
Cole  has  made  a  careful  and  searching  study  in  the  beliefs 
of  Scientists,  and  is  perfectly  versed  in  all  their  beliefs  and 
doctrines.  She  stated  that  man  of  himself  has  no  power, 
but  that  all  comes  from  God.  She  placed  no  credit  what- 
ever in  the  reports  from  New  York  that  Mrs.  Eddy  has 
been  accredited  as  having  been  deified.  She  referred  the 
reporter  to  the  large  volume  which  Mrs.  Eddy  had  herself 
written,  and  said  that  no  more  complete  and  yet  concise 
idea  of  her  belief  could  be  obtained  than  by  a  perusal  of  it. 


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[New  York  Herald,  February  1,  1895] 

MRS.  EDDY  SHOCKED 

[By  Telegraph  to  the  Herald} 

Concord,  N.  H.,  February  4,  1895.  —  The  article  pub- 
lished in  the  Herald  on  January  29,  regarding  a  statement 
made  by  Mrs.  Laura  Lathrop,  pastor  of  the  Christian  Sci- 
ence congregation  that  meets  every  Sunday  in  Hodgson 
Hall,  New  York,  was  shown  to  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
the  Christian  Science  "Discoverer,"  to-day. 

Mrs.  Eddy  preferred  to  prepare  a  written  answer  to  the 
interrogatory,  which  she  did  in  this  letter,  addressed  to  the 
editor  of  the  Herald :  — 

"A  despatch  is  given  me,  calling  for  an  interview  to  an- 
swer for  myself, '  Am  I  the  second  Christ  ? ' 

"Even  the  question  shocks  me.  What  I  am  is  for  God 
to  declare  in  His  infinite  mercy.  As  it  is,  I  claim  nothing 
more  than  what  I  am,  the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of 
Christian  Science,  and  the  blessing  it  has  been  to  mankind 
which  eternity  enfolds. 

"I  think  Mrs.  Lathrop  was  not  understood.  If  she  said 
aught  with  intention  to  be  thus  understood,  it  is  not  what 
I  have  taught  her,  and  not  at  all  as  I  have  heard  her  talk. 

"My  books  and  teachings  maintain  but  one  conclusion 
and  statement  of  the  Christ  and  the  deification  of  mortals. 

"Christ  is  individual,  and  one  with  God,  in  the  sense 
of  divine  Love  and  its  compound  divine  ideal. 

"There  was,  is,  and  never  can  be  but  one  God,  one 


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Christ,  one  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  Whoever  in  any  age  ex- 
presses most  of  the  spirit  of  Truth  and  Love,  the  Principle 
of  God's  idea,  has  most  of  the  spirit  of  Christ,  of  that  Mind 
which  was  in  Christ  Jesus. 

"If  Christian  Scientists  find  in  my  writings,  teachings, 
and  example  a  greater  degree  of  this  spirit  than  in  others, 
they  can  justly  declare  it.  But  to  think  or  speak  of  me  in 
any  manner  as  a  Christ,  is  sacrilegious.  Such  a  statement 
would  not  only  be  false,  but  the  absolute  antipode  of  Chris- 
tian Science,  and  would  savor  more  of  heathenism  than  of 
my  doctrines. 

"MARY  BAKER  EDDY." 


[The  Globe,  Toronto,  Canada,  January  12,  1895] 
[Extract] 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENTISTS 

DEDICATION  TO  THE  FOUNDER  OF  THE  ORDER  OF  A   BEAUTIFUL 
CHURCH  AT  BOSTON  — MANY  TORONTO  SCIENTISTS  PRESENT 

The  Christian  Scientists  of  Toronto,  to  the  number  of 
thirty,  took  part  in  the  ceremonies  at  Boston  last  Sunday 
and  for  the  day  or  two  following,  by  which  the  members 
of  that  faith  all  over  North  America  celebrated  the  dedica- 
tion of  the  church  constructed  in  the  great  New  England 
capital  as  a  testimonial  to  the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of 
Christian  Science,  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

The  temple  is  believed  to  be  the  most  nearly  fire-proof 
church  structure  on  the  continent,  the  only  combustible 


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material  used  in  its  construction  being  that  used  in  the 
doors  and  pews.  A  striking  feature  of  the  church  is  a 
beautiful  apartment  known  as  the  "Mother's  Room," 
which  is  approached  through  a  superb  archway  of  Italian 
marble  set  in  the  wall.  The  furnishing  of  the  "Mother's 
Room"  is  described  as  "particularly  beautiful,  and  blends 
harmoniously  with  the  pale  green  and  gold  decoration  of  the 
walls.  The  floor  is  of  mosaic  in  elegant  designs,  and  two 
alcoves  are  separated  from  the  apartment  by  rich  hangings 
of  deep  green  plush,  which  in  certain  lights  has  a  shimmer 
of  silver.  The  furniture  frames  are  of  white  mahogany 
in  special  designs,  elaborately  carved,  and  the  upholstery 
is  in  white  and  gold  tapestry.  A  superb  mantel  of  Mexican 
onyx  with  gold  decoration  adorns  the  south  wall,  and  before 
the  hearth  is  a  large  rug  composed  entirely  of  skins  of  the 
eider-down  duck,  brought  from  the  Arctic  regions.  Pic- 
tures and  bric-a-brac  everywhere  suggest  the  tribute  of 
loving  friends.  One  of  the  two  alcoves  is  a  retiring-room 
and  the  other  a  lavatory  in  which  the  plumbing  is  all 
heavily  plated  with  gold." 


[Evening  Monitor,  Concord,  N.  H.,  February  27,  1895] 

AN  ELEGANT  SOUVENIR 

REV.  MARY  BAKER  EDDY  MEMORIALIZED  BY  A  CHRISTIAN 
SCIENCE  CHURCH 

Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  Discoverer  of  Christian  Science, 
has  received  from  the  members  of  The  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  Boston,  an  invitation  formally  to  accept 


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the  magnificent  new  edifice  of  worship  which  the  church 
has  just  erected. 

The  invitation  itself  is  one  of  the  most  chastely  elegant 
memorials  ever  prepared,  and  is  a  scroll  of  solid  gold, 
suitably  engraved,  and  encased  in  a  handsome  plush 
casket  with  white  silk  linings.  Attached  to  the  scroll  is  a 
golden  key  of  the  church  structure. 

The  inscription  reads  thus :  — 

Dear  Mother :  —  During  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-four  a  church  edifice  was  erected  at  the  intersection 
of  Falmouth  and  Norway  Streets,  in  the  city  of  Boston, 
by  the  loving  hands  of  four  thousand  members.  This 
edifice  is  built  as  a  testimonial  to  Truth,  as  revealed  by 
divine  Love  through  you  to  this  age.  You  are  hereby 
most  lovingly  invited  to  visit  and  formally  accept  this 
testimonial  on  the  twentieth  day  of  February,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-five,  at  high  noon. 

"The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  at  Boston,  Mass. 

"BY  EDWARD  P.  BATES, 
"CAROLINE  S.  BATES. 

"To  the  Reverend  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
"Boston,  January  6th,  1895." 


[People  and  Patriot,  Concord,  N.  H.,  February  27,  1895] 

MAGNIFICENT  TESTIMONIAL 

Members  of  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  at 
Boston,  have  forwarded  to  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Eddy  of 


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this  city,  the  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  a  testimonial 
which  is  probably  one  of  the  most  magnificent  examples 
of  the  goldsmith's  art  ever  wrought  in  this  country.  It  is 
in  the  form  of  a  gold  scroll,  twenty-six  inches  long,  nine 
inches  wide,  and  an  eighth  of  an  inch  thick. 

It  bears  upon  its  face  the  following  inscription,  cut  in 
script  letters :  — 

"Dear  Mother:  —  During  the  year  1894  a  church  edi- 
fice was  erected  at  the  intersection  of  Falmouth  and  Nor- 
way Streets,  in  the  city  of  Boston,  by  the  loving  hands  of 
four  thousand  members.  This  edifice  is  built  as  a  testi- 
monial to  Truth,  as  revealed  by  divine  Love  through  you 
to  this  age.  You  are  hereby  most  lovingly  invited  to  visit 
and  formally  accept  this  testimonial  on  the  20th  day  of 
February,  1895,  at  high  noon. 

"The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist,  at  Boston,  Mass. 

"By  EDWARD  P.  BATES, 
"CAROLINE  S.  BATES. 
"To  the  Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
"Boston,  January  6,  1895." 

Attached  by  a  white  ribbon  to  the  scroll  is  a  gold  key 
to  the  church  door. 

The  testimonial  is  encased  in  a  white  satin-lined  box 
of  rich  green  velvet. 

The  scroll  is  on  exhibition  in  the  window  of  J.  C. 
Derby's  jewelry  store. 


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[The  Union  Signal,  Chicago] 
[Extract] 

THE  NEW  WOMAN  AND  THE  NEW  CHURCH 

The  dedication,  in  Boston,  of  a  Christian  Science  temple 
costing  over  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  for  which 
the  money  was  all  paid  in  so  that  no  debt  had  to  be  taken 
care  of  on  dedication  day,  is  a  notable  event.  While  we 
are  not,  and  never  have  been,  devotees  of  Christian  Science, 
it  becomes  us  as  students  of  public  questions  not  to  ignore 
a  movement  which,  starting  fifteen  years  ago,  has  already 
gained  to  itself  adherents  in  every  part  of  the  civilized 
world,  for  it  is  a  significant  fact  that  one  cannot  take  up 
a  daily  paper  in  town  or  village  —  to  say  nothing  of  cities  — 
without  seeing  notices  of  Christian  Science  meetings,  and 
in  most  instances  they  are  held  at  "headquarters." 

We  believe  there  are  two  reasons  for  this  remarkable 
development,  which  has  shown  a  vitality  so  unexpected. 
The  first  is  that  a  revolt  was  inevitable  from  the  crass 
materialism  of  the  cruder  science  that  had  taken  posses- 
sion of  men's  minds,  for  as  a  wicked  but  witty  writer  has 
said,  "If  there  were  no  God,  we  should  be  obliged  to  in- 
vent one."  There  is  something  in  the  constitution  of 
man  that  requires  the  religious  sentiment  as  much  as  his 
lungs  call  for  breath;  indeed,  the  breath  of  his  soul  is  a 
belief  in  God. 

But  when  Christian  Science  arose,  the  thought  of  the 
world's  scientific  leaders  had  become  materialistically 
"lopsided,"  and  this  condition  can  never  long  continue. 


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There  must  be  a  righting-up  of  the  mind  as  surely  as  of  a 
ship  when  under  stress  of  storm  it  is  ready  to  capsize.  The 
pendulum  that  has  swung  to  one  extreme  will  surely  find 
the  other.  The  religious  sentiment  in  women  is  so  strong 
that  the  revolt  was  headed  by  them;  this  was  inevitable 
in  the  nature  of  the  case.  It  began  in  the  most  intellectual 
city  of  the  freest  country  in  the  world  —  that  is  to  say, 
it  sought  the  line  of  least  resistance.  Boston  is  emphati- 
cally the  women's  paradise,  —  numerically,  socially,  in- 
deed every  way.  Here  they  have  the  largest  individuality, 
the  most  recognition,  the  widest  outlook.  Mrs.  Eddy  we 
have  never  seen;  her  book  has  many  a  time  been  sent 
us  by  interested  friends,  and  out  of  respect  to  them  we 
have  fairly  broken  our  mental  teeth  over  its  granitic  peb- 
bles. That  we  could  not  understand  it  might  be  rather 
to  the  credit  of  the  book  than  otherwise.  On  this  subject 
we  have  no  opinion  to  pronounce,  but  simply  state  the 
fact. 

We  do  not,  therefore,  speak  of  the  system  it  sets  forth, 
either  to  praise  or  blame,  but  this  much  is  true :  the  spirit 
of  Christian  Science  ideas  has  caused  an  army  of  well-mean- 
ing people  to  believe  in  God  and  the  power  of  faith,  who 
did  not  believe  in  them  before.  It  has  made  a  myriad  of 
women  more  thoughtful  and  devout;  it  has  brought  a 
hopeful  spirit  into  the  homes  of  unnumbered  invalids. 
The  belief  that  "thoughts  are  things,"  that  the  invisible 
is  the  only  real  world,  that  we  are  here  to  be  trained  into 
harmony  with  the  laws  of  God,  and  that  what  we  are  here 
determines  where  we  shall  be  hereafter  —  all  these  ideas 
are  Christian. 


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The  chimes  on  the  Christian  Science  temple  in  Boston 
played  "All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name,"  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  dedication.  We  did  not  attend,  but  we  learn 
that  the  name  of  Christ  is  nowhere  spoken  with  more 
reverence  than  it  was  during  those  services,  and  that  he 
is  set  forth  as  the  power  of  God  for  righteousness  and  the 
express  image  of  God  for  love. 


[The  New  Century,  Boston,  February,  1895] 

ONE  POINT  OF  VIEW  —  THE  NEW  WOMAN 

We  all  know  her  —  she  is  simply  the  woman  of  the  past 
with  an  added  grace  —  a  newer  charm.  Some  of  her 
dearest  ones  call  her  "selfish"  because  she  thinks  so  much 
of  herself  she  spends  her  whole  time  helping  others.  She 
represents  the  composite  beauty,  sweetness,  and  nobility 
of  all  those  who  scorn  self  for  the  sake  of  love  and  her 
handmaiden  duty  —  of  all  those  who  seek  the  brightness 
of  truth  not  as  the  moth  to  be  destroyed  thereby,  but  as 
the  lark  who  soars  and  sings  to  the  great  sun.  She  is  of 
those  who  have  so  much  to  give  they  want  no  time  to  take, 
and  their  name  is  legion.  She  is  as  full  of  beautiful  possi- 
bilities as  a  perfect  harp,  and  she  realizes  that  all  the  har- 
monies of  the  universe  are  in  herself,  while  her  own  soul 
plays  upon  magic  strings  the  unwritten  anthems  of  love. 
She  is  the  apostle  of  the  true,  the  beautiful,  the  good,  com- 
missioned to  complete  all  that  the  twelve  have  left  undone. 
Hers  is  the  mission  of  missions  —  the  highest  of  all  —  to 


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make  the  body  not  the  prison,  but  the  palace  of  the  soul, 
with  the  brain  for  its  great  white  throne. 

When  she  comes  like  the  south  wind  into  the  cold  haunts 
of  sin  and  sorrow,  her  words  are  smiles  and  her  smiles  are 
the  sunlight  which  heals  the  stricken  soul.  Her  hand  is 
tender  —  but  steel  tempered  with  holy  resolve,  and  as 
one  whom  her  love  had  glorified  once  said  —  she  is  soft 
and  gentle,  but  you  could  no  more  turn  her  from  her 
course  than  winter  could  stop  the  coming  of  spring.  She 
has  long  learned  with  patience,  and  to-day  she  knows 
many  things  dear  to  the  soul  far  better  than  her  teachers. 
In  olden  times  the  Jews  claimed  to  be  the  conservators 
of  the  world's  morals  —  they  treated  woman  as  a  chattel, 
and  said  that  because  she  was  created  after  man,  she  was 
created  solely  for  man.  Too  many  still  are  Jews  who 
never  called  Abraham  "Father,"  while  the  Jews  them- 
selves have  long  acknowledged  woman  as  man's  proper 
helpmeet.  In  those  days  women  had  few  lawful  claims 
and  no  one  to  urge  them.  True,  there  were  Miriam  and 
Esther,  but  they  sang  and  sacrificed  for  their  people,  not 
for  their  sex. 

To-day  there  are  ten  thousand  Esthers,  and  Miriams 
by  the  million,  who  sing  best  by  singing  most  for  their 
own  sex.  They  are  demanding  the  right  to  help  make 
the  laws,  or  at  least  to  help  enforce  the  laws  upon 
which  depends  the  welfare  of  their  husbands,  their  chil- 
dren, and  themselves.  Why  should  our  selfish  self  longer 
remain  deaf  to  their  cry?  The  date  is  no  longer  B.  C. 
Might  no  longer  makes  right,  and  in  this  fair  land  at  least 
fear  has  ceased  to  kiss  the  iron  heel  of  wrong.  Why  then 


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should  we  continue  to  demand  woman's  love  and  woman's 
help  while  we  recklessly  promise  as  lover  and  candidate 
what  we  never  fulfil  as  husband  and  office-holder?  In 
our  secret  heart  our  better  self  is  shamed  and  dishonored, 
and  appeals  from  Philip  drunk  to  Philip  sober,  but  has 
not  yet  the  moral  strength  and  courage  to  prosecute  the 
appeal.  But  the  east  is  rosy,  and  the  sunlight  cannot  long 
be  delayed.  Woman  must  not  and  will  not  be  disheart- 
ened by  a  thousand  denials  or  a  million  of  broken  pledges. 
With  the  assurance  of  faith  she  prays,  with  the  certainty 
of  inspiration  she  works,  and  with  the  patience  of  genius 
she  waits.  At  last  she  is  becoming  "as  fair  as  the  morn, 
as  bright  as  the  sun,  and  as  terrible  as  an  army  with  ban- 
ners" to  those  who  march  under  the  black  flag  of  oppres- 
sion and  wield  the  ruthless  sword  of  injustice. 

In  olden  times  it  was  the  Amazons  who  conquered  the 
invincibles,  and  we  must  look  now  to  their  daughters  to 
overcome  our  own  allied  armies  of  evil  and  to  save  us  from 
ourselves.  She  must  and  will  succeed,  for  as  David  sang 
—  "God  shall  help  her,  and  that  right  early."  W7hen  we 
try  to  praise  her  later  works  it  is  as  if  we  would  pour 
incense  upon  the  rose.  It  is  the  proudest  boast  of  many 
of  us  that  we  are  "bound  to  her  by  bonds  dearer  than  free- 
dom," and  that  we  live  in  the  reflected  royalty  which 
shines  from  her  brow.  We  rejoice  with  her  that  at  last 
we  begin  to  know  what  John  on  Patmos  meant  —  "  And 
there  appeared  a  great  wonder  in  heaven,  a  woman  clothed 
with  the  sun,  and  the  moon  under  her  feet,  and  upon  her 
head  a  crown  of  twelve  stars."  She  brought  to  warring 
men  the  Prince  of  Peace,  and  he,  departing,  left  his  scepter 


84  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

not  in  her  hand,  but  in  her  soul.  "The  time  of  times" 
is  near  when  "the  new  woman"  shall  subdue  the  whole 
earth  with  the  weapons  of  peace.  Then  shall  wrong  be 
robbed  of  her  bitterness  and  ingratitude  of  her  sting, 
revenge  shall  clasp  hands  with  pity,  and  love  shall  dwell 
in  the  tents  of  hate;  while  side  by  side,  equal  partners  in 
all  that  is  worth  living  for,  shall  stand  the  new  man  with 
the  new  woman. 

IChristian  Science  Journal,  January,  1895] 

[Extract] 
THE  MOTHER  CHURCH 

The  Mother  Church  edifice  — The  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  in  Boston,  is  erected.  The  close  of  the 
year,  Anno  Domini  1894,  witnessed  the  completion  of 
"our  prayer  in  stone,"  all  predictions  and  prognostications 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

Of  the  significance  of  this  achievement  we  shall  not 
undertake  to  speak  in  this  article.  It  can  be  better  felt 
than  expressed.  All  who  are  awake  thereto  have  some 
measure  of  understanding  of  what  it  means.  But  only 
the  future  will  tell  the  story  of  its  mighty  meaning  or  un- 
fold it  to  the  comprehension  of  mankind.  It  is  enough  for 
us  now  to  know  that  all  obstacles  to  its  completion  have 
been  met  and  overcome,  and  that  our  temple  is  completed 
as  God  intended  it  should  be. 

This  achievement  is  the  result  of  long  years  of  untiring, 
unselfish,  and  zealous  effort  on  the  part  of  our  beloved 
teacher  and  Leader,  the  Reverend  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  who 


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nearly  thirty  years  ago  began  to  lay  the  foundation  of 
this  temple,  and  whose  devotion  and  consecration  to  God 
and  humanity  during  the  intervening  years  have  made 
its  erection  possible. 

Those  who  now,  in  part,  understand  her  mission,  turn 
their  hearts  in  gratitude  to  her  for  her  great  work,  and 
those  who  do  not  understand  it  will,  in  the  fulness  of  time, 
see  and  acknowledge  it.  In  the  measure  in  which  she  has 
unfolded  and  demonstrated  divine  Love,  and  built  up  in 
human  consciousness  a  better  and  higher  conception  of 
God  as  Life,  Truth,  and  Love,  —  as  the  divine  Principle 
of  all  things  which  really  exist,  —  and  in  the  degree  in 
which  she  has  demonstrated  the  system  of  healing  of  Jesus 
and  the  apostles,  surely  she,  as  the  one  chosen  of  God  to 
this  end,  is  entitled  to  the  gratitude  and  love  of  all  who 
desire  a  better  and  grander  humanity,  and  who  believe 
it  to  be  possible  to  establish  the  kingdom  of  heaven  upon 
earth  in  accordance  with  the  prayer  and  teachings  of 
Jesus  Christ. 

[Concord  Evening  Monitor,  March  23,  1895] 

TESTIMONIAL  AND  GIFT 

To  REV.  MART  BAKER  EDDY,  FROM  THE  FIRST  CHURCH  OP 
CHRIST,  SCIENTIST,  IN  BOSTON 

Rev.  Mary  Baker  Eddy  received  Friday,  from  the  Chris- 
tian Science  Board  of  Directors,  Boston,  a  beautiful  and 
unique  testimonial  of  the  appreciation  of  her  labors  and 
loving  generosity  in  the  Cause  of  their  common  faith.  It 
was  a  facsimile  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  new  church  of 


86  PULPIT  AND  PRESS 

the  Christian  Scientists,  just  completed,  being  of  granite, 
about  six  inches  in  each  dimension,  and  contains  a  solid 
gold  box,  upon  the  cover  of  which  is  this  inscription :  — 

"To  our  Beloved  Teacher,  the  Reverend  Mary  Baker 
Eddy,  Discoverer  and  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  from 
her  affectionate  Students,  the  Christian  Science  Board  of 
Directors." 

On  the  under  side  of  the  cover  are  the  facsimile  sig- 
natures of  the  Directors,  —  Ira  O.  Knapp,  William  B. 
Johnson,  Joseph  Armstrong,  and  Stephen  A.  Chase, 
with  the  date,  "1895."  The  beautiful  souvenir  is  en- 
cased in  an  elegant  plush  box. 

Accompanying  the  stone  testimonial  was  the  following 
address  from  the  Board  of  Directors :  — 

Boston,  March  20,  1895. 

To  the  Reverend  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  our  Beloved 
Teacher  and  Leader:  —  We  are  happy  to  announce  to  you 
the  completion  of  The  First  Church  of  Christ,  Scientist, 
in  Boston. 

In  behalf  of  your  loving  students  and  all  contributors 
wherever  they  may  be,  we  hereby  present  this  church  to 
you  as  a  testimonial  of  love  and  gratitude  for  your  labors 
and  loving  sacrifice,  as  the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of 
Christian  Science,  and  the  author  of  its  textbook,  "Sci- 
ence and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures." 

We  therefore  respectfully  extend  to  you  the  invitation 
to  become  the  permanent  pastor  of  this  church,  in  con- 
nection with  the  Bible  and  the  book  alluded  to  above, 
which  you  have  already  ordained  as  our  pastor.  And  we 


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most  cordially  invite  you  to  be  present  and  take  charge 
of  any  services  that  may  be  held  therein.  We  especially 
desire  you  to  be  present  on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  March, 
eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-five,  to  accept  this  offering, 
with  our  humble  benediction. 
Lovingly  yours, 

IRA  O.  KNAPP,  JOSEPH  ARMSTRONG, 

WILLIAM  B.  JOHNSON,         STEPHEN  A.  CHASE, 

The  Christian  Science  Board  of  Directors. 


Beloved  Directors  and  Brethren :  —  For  your  costly  offer- 
ing, and  kind  call  to  the  pastorate  of  "The  First  Church 
of  Christ,  Scientist,"  in  Boston  —  accept  my  profound 
thanks.  But  permit  me,  respectfully,  to  decline  their  ac- 
ceptance, while  I  fully  appreciate  your  kind  intentions. 
If  it  will  comfort  you  in  the  least,  make  me  your  Pastor 
Emeritus,  nominally.  Through  my  book,  your  textbook, 
I  already  speak  to  you  each  Sunday.  You  ask  too  much 
when  asking  me  to  accept  your  grand  church  edifice.  I 
have  more  of  earth  now,  than  I  desire,  and  less  of  heaven ; 
so  pardon  my  refusal  of  that  as  a  material  offering.  More 
effectual  than  the  forum  are  our  states  of  mind,  to  bless 
mankind.  This  wish  stops  not  with  my  pen  —  God  give 
you  grace.  As  our  church's  tall  tower  detains  the  sun, 
so  may  luminous  lines  from  your  lives  linger,  a  legacy  to 
our  race. 

MARY  BAKER  EDDY. 

March  25,  1895. 


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LIST  OF  LEADING  NEWSPAPERS  WHOSE  ARTICLES 
ARE  OMITTED 

From  Canada  to  New  Orleans,  and  from  the  Atlantic 
to  the  Pacific  ocean,  the  author  has  received  leading  news- 
papers with  uniformly  kind  and  interesting  articles  on 
the  dedication  of  The  Mother  Church.  They  were,  how- 
ever, too  voluminous  for  these  pages.  To  those  which  are 
copied  she  can  append  only  a  few  of  the  names  of  other 
prominent  newspapers  whose  articles  are  reluctantly 
omitted. 


EASTERN  STATES 

Advertiser,  Calais,  Me. 
Advertiser,  Boston,  Mass. 
Farmer,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Independent,  Rockland,  Mass. 
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Saratogian,  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

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WORKS  ON  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

WRITTEN  BY   MARY   BAKER   EDDY 


SCIENCE  AND  HEALTH  WITH  KEY  TO  THE 
SCRIPTURES 

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NO   AND   YES 

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FEED  MY   SHEEP 

Words  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy.  Music  by  Lyman  F.  Brackett 
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